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Carl Jóhan Jensen
Carl Jóhan Jensen (2 December 1957) is a Faroese writer, poet and literary critic. His books have five times been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1991, 1998, 2007, 2008 and 2016. In 1989 and 2006 he received the M. A. Jacobsen's Cultural Prize from Tórshavn City Council Biography Jensen was born and grew up in Tórshavn and moved to Denmark in 1973 to attend a Danish gymnasium (a preparatory high school). Having graduated, he moved back to the Faroe Islands in 1976, where he worked in various jobs, i.e. as a journalist. From 1979 to 1981 he studied the Faroese language at the Faroese University in Tórshavn, and from 1981 to 1987 studied Icelandic in Reykjavík. In 1990 he graduated cand.phil. in Faroese. He and his Australian wife Kate Sanderson have two sons. They live in Tórshavn, though with a period spent abroad, when Sanderson, having worked for the Faroese government as a special advisor for several years, was sent in 2012 for a three-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Carl may refer to: *Carl, Georgia, city in USA *Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name *Carl², a TV series * "Carl", List of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes, an episode of television series ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' * An informal nickname for a student or alum of Carleton College CARL may refer to: *Canadian Association of Research Libraries *Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries See also *Carle (other) *Charles *Carle, a surname *Karl (other) *Karle (other) {{disambig ja:カール zh:卡尔 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroese Language
Faroese ( ; ) is a North Germanic languages, North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of whom 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere. It is one of five languages descended from Old Norse#Old West Norse, Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages; the others include Nynorsk, Norwegian, Icelandic language, Icelandic, and the extinct Norn language, Norn and Greenlandic Norse. Faroese and Icelandic, its closest extant relative, are not easily Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible in speech, but the written languages resemble each other quite closely, largely owing to Faroese's Orthographic depth, etymological orthography. History Around 900 AD, the language spoken in the Faroes was Old Norse, which Norse settlers had brought with them during the time of the settlement of Faroe Islands () that began in 825. However, many of the settlers were not from Scandinavia, but descendants of Norse settlers in the Irish Sea region. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroese Male Poets
Faroese ( ) or Faroish ( ) may refer to anything pertaining to the Faroe Islands, e.g.: * the Faroese language * the Faroese people * the Faroese islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a population of 54,609 ... {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Faroese Poets
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1957 Births
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Paul Alfred Kleinert
Paul Alfred Kleinert (born 24 February 1960) is a German writer, editor and translator. Biography Kleinert was born in Leipzig in 1960 with family roots in Silesia and Gdańsk. He studied theology and did theological and celtic studies in East Berlin at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ''(HU Berlin)'' and West Berlin at Freie Universität Berlin ''(Free University of Berlin, FU Berlin)'', Edinburgh at the University of Edinburgh and Dublin. His main areas of interest are poetry, short stories and translation from classical languages. He has lived and worked in Kreuzberg in Berlin since 1986. Publications 43 editions since 1994, i.a.: * “Zeitzeichen” (1999-2009* “Die Nessing’schen Hefte” (2003-2005* “Nordische Reihe” (since 2006) in “pernobilis-edition” Leipzig (since 2007)* First ever volume of Faroese language, Faroese/German poetry by Guðrið Helmsdal "Stjørnuakrar /Sternenfelder", translation by A.Nielsen (2006) * First ever Faroese language, Faroese/Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
