[1] She writes novels, short stories, plays, poems for all age groups, as well as being a visual artist who illustrates some her books.

[2] She is the current chair person for the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands (Faroese: Rithøvundafelag Føroya).

[5] Her work includes collaboration with two other authors, Áslaug Jónsdóttir from Iceland and Kalle Güettler from Sweden on a series of 10 "Monsters" books starting with Nei!

[6] Rakel Helmsdal was born in Tårnby near Copenhagen in 1966 by a Faroese mother and a Danish father.

Her first novel was "Tey kalla meg bara Hugo" (The just call me Hugo), and the following year she published her first short story collection titled Søgur úr Port Janua (Stories from Port Janua).