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List Of Faroese People
This is a list of famous or important Faroese people. In a small island-society of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, each person can gain certain meaning for the entire nation. The people listed below, are among those who played or play a distinct role in Faroese culture, politics and history. Many of them are renowned outside the Faroes, especially in Denmark and other Nordic countries. Artists Authors and poets * Heðin Brú * Marianna Debes Dahl * Joen Danielsen * Hans Andrias Djurhuus * Janus Djurhuus * Jens Christian Djurhuus * Bergtóra Hanusardóttir * Jens Pauli Heinesen * William Heinesen (also a painter, graphical artist and musician) * Guðrið Helmsdal * Rakel Helmsdal * Regin Dahl * Jógvan Isaksen * Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen * Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen * Poul F. Joensen * Oddvør Johansen * Hanus Kamban * Sissal Kampmann * Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs * Jóanes Nielsen * Rói Patursson (also a philosopher) * Kristian Osvald Viderø (also a clergyman) Cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroese Folk Dance Club From Vagar
Faroese ( ) or Faroish ( ) may refer to anything pertaining to the Faroe Islands, e.g.: *the Faroese language * the Faroese people Faroese people or Faroe Islanders ( fo, føroyingar; da, færinger) are a North Germanic ethnic group and nation native to the Faroe Islands. The Faroese are of mixed Norse and Gaelic origins. About 21,000 Faroese live in neighbouring countri ... {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jógvan Isaksen
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 (1993, in Danish). He is leader of the Faroese publication house which has its address in the Faroe Islands, though its committee is located in Copenhagen. It publishes Faroese books and is the oldest Faroese publishing house, having been founded in 1910. Biography Jógvan Isaksen is the son of Magnhild Isaksen née Olsen and Reimar Isaksen, who both come from the village of Gøta. After finishing high school in 1970 he moved to Denmark in order to study Nordic Philology at Aarhus University. He finished his MA in Scandinavian Literature Science in 1982. Since 1986 he has been associate Professor in Faroese language and Faroese literature at the University of Copenhagen. Since 2000 he has been the main editor of the magazine (Nordic Literature), put out by the Nordic Council. Since 1978 Isaksen ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish (as in slapstick), or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian. A popular saying often attributed to Ed Wynn attempts to differentiate the two terms: "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny." This draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona. Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative comedy, has grown in popularity with its more offbeat and experimental style. This normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting (e.g., Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh, Malcolm Hardee). As far as content is concerned, comedians such as Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop, Kevin Hart, and Dawn French draw on their background to poke fun at themselves, while othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Haugaard
Daniel Jacob Haugaard (born 12 May 1952) is a Danish-Faroese comedian, actor, musician, composer, writer, TV host and former representative in the Danish Parliament. Activities Jacob Haugaard has been a well-known performer in Denmark for many years, mixing comedy, singing and instrumental music in his own unique style. He is usually dressed in an ever-changing range of gaudy suits, and often plays a home-made guitar for which he is well known. He has recorded many music records and CDs since 1977. Haugaard has also produced radio, films and TV, mostly comedy and sketches and has a long history of close cooperation with comedian and entertainer Finn Nørbygaard, since 1984. They performed as the Finn & Jacob duo for many years. Haugaard lived in Malling near Aarhus for many years, where he ran his own TV station from a disused watertower in his backyard, until he was elected as an MP. In his younger days, Haugaard was a leader in the " Union of Deliberate Work-avoiding Eleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Osvald Viderø
Kristian Osvald Viderø (27 May 1906, in Skálavík – 8 April 1991, in Copenhagen) was a Faroese clergyman, poet and Bible translator. In 1985 he won the Faroese Literature Prize for his works. Biography After theological studies in Denmark, Viderø oversaw the completion of a translation of the Old Testament into the Faroese language, which Jákup Dahl Jákup Dahl (English and German ''Jacob Dahl'') (5 June 1878 – 5 June 1944) was a Faroese Provost and Bible translator. In 1908 he became known as a linguist with the first Faroese grammar lessons for school students. Life and work Dahl w ... had worked on until his death in 1944. He was the parish priest of Hattarvík from 1965 to 1969. Viderø was commemorated on a Faroese postage stamp in a series on Faroese Bible translators in June 2007. Bibliography * Ferð mín til Jorsala. Tórshavn: E. Thomsen, 1984. * Á Suðurlandið. Tórshavn: E. Thomsen, 1990. * Ferð mín til Jorsala á himni. Tórshavn:: E. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rói Patursson
Rói Reynagarð Patursson (born 21 September 1947) is a Faroese writer and philosopher. He was also the director of the Folk High School of the Faroes. He was born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. After attending the St. Frans School in Tórshavn and secondary school, Patursson went abroad from 1964 to 1965, afterwards taking various jobs in Tórshavn and Copenhagen. In 1968 he traveled across Europe, and afterwards he attended a Gymnasium until 1969. From 1970 to 1985 he lived in Copenhagen, and in 1973 he married. He and his wife had a daughter in 1974, and a second daughter in 1981. In 1976 he began the study of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, and received a Masters in 1985. Having returned to the Faroes in 1985, he taught night school and at the University of the Faroe Islands, and made transmissions for Útvarp Føroya (Radio of the Faroes). In 1987 he received the post as docent at the ''Skrivekunst Akademiet'' in Bergen, Norway. Since 1988, he has led the Folk H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jóanes Nielsen
Jóanes Nielsen (born April 5, 1953 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese author and poet of the 1980s generation. Nielsen has written short stories, plays and novels. He has published seven collections of poetry, and was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the fourth time with his latest collection of poems, entitled ''Brúgvar av svongum orðum'' (Bridges of Hungry Words). One of his main influences is the writer William Heinesen, who features in some of his poems. As a writer Nielsen is mainly associated with a political and often existential message. He has been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize five times: 1988, 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2012. In December 2012 the international publication house Random House made a contract with Nielsen to publish his novel ''Brahmadellarnir'', which was first to be published in German. The Random House contract was regarded as an historic event for Faroese literature, because no other Faroese author's work had until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs
Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs (born 1974) is a Faroese poet, playwright and novelist. She is the author of fourteen works in different genres. Among these are her three collections of poems: "Karmageitin," (2022) ''Rót Tripp'' (2012) and ''Opna'' (2016). Her two stage plays "Gentukamarið" (2022) and "Tóm Rúm" (2014) both premiered on the Faroese national scene. In 2016 the play "Tóm rúm" was chosen to be a part of the Nordic Drama Train. Her novel ''Skriva í sandin'' is a contemporary book for young adults, taking place in Kjelnæs's hometown of Tórshavn. She wrote lyrics and cooperated with singer Eivør Pálsdóttir and DR Big Band on the musical composition ''At the Heart of a Selkie." (2016) Lyrics for Eivør include among others: Verð mín, Salt, Slør, Mánasegl, Gullspunnin, Stirdur saknur, The Swing. Recent work includes the novel ''Óendaliga vera'', published in 2016, and the script for the film ''Dreams by the sea'', directed by Sakaris Stórá and released in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sissal Kampmann
Sissal Kampmann (born 1974) is a Faroese poet. She grew up in Vestmanna in the Faroe Islands. After finishing the Faroese University-preparatory school (in Faroese called Studentaskúli, in Danish: Gymnasium) in Tórshavn, she moved to Denmark to study Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen. She published her first poetry collection in 2011, while living in Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan a .... The poems were written in Faroese and were published by the Faroese-owned ''Forlaget Eksil''. In September 2012 she received the Klaus Rifbjerg's Debutant Prize. Bibliography Poems * 2016 - ''Sunnudagsland'', Mentanargrunnur Studentafelgasins * 2014 - Hyasinttíð, (“Hyacinth time”) Mentanargrunnur Studentafelgasins * 2013 - ''4D''. Copenhagen, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanus Kamban
Hanus Kamban (born 25 June 1942 in Saltangará, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese short story writer, essayist, biographer and poet. He was born Hanus Andreassen, but changed his last name to Kamban in 2000. Kamban grew up on the small island of Skúvoy and moved to Tórshavn in 1956. He writes about the quite sudden modernisation of the Faroese society post World War II. He published his first short story anthology in 1980, and has translated William Shakespeare, Kafka, Graham Greene and other great writers and poets from other countries to Faroese. From 1994 to 1997 he published a three-volume biography of one of the most important Faroese poets, Janus Djurhuus. It was translated into Danish and published in two volumes in 2001. He was nominated to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the first time in 2003 for his short story anthology ''Pílagrímar'' (Pilgrims). In 2012 he was nominated for the second time to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, this time for his short st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oddvør Johansen
Oddvør Johansen (born 30 October 1941 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese writer and organ player in Tórshavn Cathedral. She writes novels, short stories and children's books. She has twice received the Faroese Literature Prize, in 1983 and 2002. In 1988 she was awarded with Tórshavn City Council's Children's Book Prize ( Barnabókavirðisløn Tórshavnar Býráðs). In 2001 her novel ''Í morgin er aftur ein dagur'' was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. Bibliography * 1982 – ''Lívsins summar'' (novel, Faroese Literature Prize, 1983) ** 1985 – Danish: ''Livets sommer'' ** 1985 – Swedish: ''Livets sommar'' * 1983 – ''Hundalív í Grindavági'' (children's book) * 1988 – ''Skip í eygsjón'' (children's book, illustrated by Olivur við Neyst, Barnamentanarheiðursløn Tórshavnar býráðs in 1988) * 1990 – ''Bella Katrina'' (short story) * 1993 – ''Ein mamma er ein mamma'' (novel) * 1995 – ''Á káta horninum'' (short story) * 1998 – ''Í morg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
