Jógvan Isaksen (born 25 August 1950 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese writer and literary historian.

He is best known for his crime novels and for his book about Faroese literature Færøsk Litteratur (1993, in Danish).

[1] He is leader of the Faroese publication house Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins which has its address in the Faroe Islands, though its committee is located in Copenhagen.

After finishing high school in 1970 he moved to Denmark in order to study Nordic Philology at Aarhus University.

[6] The crime novel Blíð er summarnátt á Føroyalandi was Isaksen's first in that genre, and one of the first written in Faroese where the events take place in the Faroe Islands.