The Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelag, a Faroese publishing house that’s been looking after the children for 45 years NORDIC LITTERATURE 2001 BY BIRGIR KRUSE The Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelags, or The Faroese Association of Teachers’ Publishing House (the B.F.L.), was founded in 1956 in acknowledgement of the vital importance of providing Faroese children with books in Faroese. When the B.F.L. was founded, they didn’t only have books for children and young people in mind: school textbooks were a high priority, too. At that time almost all the textbooks on the islands were Danish. But then a proper Faroese educational publishing house was founded, the Skúlabókagrunnurin, and from then on the B.F.L. gave up publishing school-books and concentrated exclusively on books for children and young people. Right from the start, and for many years afterwards, a board consisting of five teachers was in charge of all the publications. All the work was done after school, and books were published whenever