text: [{"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Written by Eir Nols\u00f8e on FaroeIslands.fo"}, {"text_idx": "#000007", "text": "Faroese author Rakel Helmsdal has won the West Nordic Council\u2019s award for best children\u2019s book. Her novel takes on heavy issues such as suicide and homosexuality."}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "The novel portrays a beautiful and clever girl, called Argantael, who despite being popular is deeply unhappy. Her father is emotionally unavailable and always works, while the mother suffers from a mental illness. She decides to end her life after the family is hit by a tragedy and she meets her two half-siblings."}, {"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "When accepting the award, Helmsdal said: \u201cThe world is full of limitations and boundaries. In my mind there are no limitations. There is no limit between dreams and reality. I write to continuously explore this boundlessness. That\u2019s what makes spending 16 years on completing a novel such as Hon, sum ro\u0301\u00f0i eftir \u00e6laboganum worthwhile. When I write, everything is the possible \u2013 both the most horrendous and the most beautiful things.\u201d"}]