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Faroese Cultural Prize
Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins (Faroese Cultural Prize) has been awarded by the Faroese government to Faroese writers, musicians, artists etc. since 1998. In 2004 no award was given. From 1998 to 2000 only one award was given, but in 2001 they established an additional award, half as big as the original. The prize is awarded by a board appointed by the Ministry of Culture. The board also gives additional special awards of 50.000 Danish Koroner and/or so-called ''sømdargávur'' or ''Sømdargáva landsins'' (grants), given as a lifelong annual grant of DKK 20 000. The main award, ''Mentanarvirðisløn landsins'', is DKK 150.000, and the ''heiðursgáva landsins'' (award of honour) is DKK 75.000 koroner. In 2011 the awards were announced in December, with the next awards announced on 15 January 2013, which was William Heinesen's birthday. This was also the first time that the event was held in Klaksvík, being announced in Spaniastova and broadcast live on national Faroese radio. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway ( away) and Iceland ( away). The islands form part of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with mainland Denmark and Greenland. The islands have a total area of about with a population of 54,000 as of June 2022. The terrain is rugged, and the subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) is windy, wet, cloudy, and cool. Temperatures for such a northerly climate are moderated by the Gulf Stream, averaging above freezing throughout the year, and hovering around in summer and 5 °C (41 °F) in winter. The northerly latitude also results in perpetual civil twilight during summer nights and very short winter days. Between 1035 and 1814, the Faroe Islands were part of the Kingdom of Norway, which was in a personal union with Denmark from 1 ... [...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 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simme Arge Jacobsen
The river Simme is a tributary of the river Kander in the Bernese Oberland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is approximately long and has a catchment area of . The river Simme begins at the Alpine lake of ''Flueseeli'' (lit.: "Little Lake of the Flue") () on the secluded Alpine meadow just above the ''Flueschafberg'' cliffs. But right afterwards, one level and lower, below the Flueschafberg cliffs, on the Alpine meadow called ''Rezliberg'', it converges with several creeks which have even higher springs, such as the Truebbach, the ''Rezligletscherbach'', and the ''Ammertenbach''. This area is located west of the mountain range Wildstrubel, and to the north of and below the Glacier de la Plaine Morte (), and about south of the resort of Lenk. Underneath the Rezliberg it forms the ''Simmenfälle'', several waterfalls, which have, altogether, a drop of . The river then flows roughly to the north and passes Lenk and flows towards Zweisimmen through the Obersimmental (Upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Árni Dahl And Bjørn Kalsø 2014
Árni is an Icelandic given name of Old Norse () origin. Notable people with the name include: * Árni Gautur Arason (born 1975), Icelandic football goalkeeper * Árni Már Árnason (born 1987), Icelandic Olympic swimmer * Árni Páll Árnason (born 1966), Icelandic politician, Minister for Social Affairs * Árni beiskur (died 1253), Icelandic killer * Árni Brjánn Angantýsson (born 1989), Icelandic fisherman known for his superhuman strength * Árni Bergmann (born 1935), Icelandic novelist * Árni Frederiksberg (born 1992), Faroese football midfielder * Árni Helgason (c. 1260–1320), Icelandic Roman Catholic clergyman * Árni Johnsen (born 1944), Icelandic politician and criminal * Árni Björn Gestsson (born 1988), Icelandic engineer and activist known for his relentless fight to replace handshakes with hugs * Árni Lárentíusson (1304–after 1337), Icelandic prose writer * Árni Magnússon (1663–1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts * Árni Magnús ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regin Dahl
Regin Dahl (5 November 1918 – 29 March 2007) was a Faroese author and composer. Biography Dahl came from a literary family; his father being the translator and provost Jákup Dahl. His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than that of many previous Faroese poets. His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen, and Dahl himself was noted as a composer. In youth he did not know how to transcribe his compositions so would work on them in his head before performing them at cultural events. As a composer he wrote musical settings for 34 Erik Axel Karlfeldt poems and created around 450 compositions in all. In the mid 1990s, Marianne Clausen made musical transcriptions of his many compositions, and published them as ''Atlantsløg'' and ''Atlantsløg II'' under his name. Recognition Dahl was honoured in 1998 with the Faroese Cultural Prize Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins (Faroese Cultural Prize) has been awarded by the Faroese government to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Pauli Heinesen
Jens Pauli Heinesen (2 November 1932 in Sandavágur −19 July 2011 in Tórshavn) was a Faroese writer. He received the Faroese Literature Prize four times and the Faroese Cultural Prize once. From 1968 to 1975, Heinesen was president of the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands (Rithøvundafelag Føroya). He wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, a children's book, and translated books from foreign languages into Faroese. Biography Jens Pauli Heinesen's parents were Petur Heinesen á Lofti, a farmer from Sandavágur, and Anna Maria Malena Heinesen (born Johannesen) from the small island Hestur. He grew up in the village of Sandavágur. At 14 years old he moved to Tórshavn, where he worked briefly at an office and published his first book, ''Degningsælið'', before finishing high school in 1954. After graduating, he moved to Denmark, where he studied at Emdrupborg Statsseminarium and became a school teacher in 1956. In August of 1956, he married Maud Brimheim fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingálvur Av Reyni
Ingálvur av Reyni (18 December 1920 – 26 November 2005) was the most celebrated painter of the Faroe Islands during the last years. Ingálvur av Reyni was born in Tórshavn. He rebelled through his expressionism against the epic content of his predecessors' art, and has opened up new paths in his painting. His art is characterised by a clear, French colourist tone, and his artistic roots go back to Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. The powerful nature of the Faroes, which makes an immediate visual impact on any painter, is the all-embracing theme in Reyni's art. But he experiences nature from the inside, as structures, tones, and fragments of a universe offering opportunities for graphical treatment of form and movement, light colours and rhythms. The expressions of nature become the basis of an increasingly abstract idiom. The light fills his landscapes, interiors and figure paintings from the 1940s and 1950s, where he characteristically simplifies the motif in cubist style. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Hoydal
Gunnar is a male first name of Nordic origin (''Gunnarr'' in Old Norse). The name Gunnar means fighter, soldier, and attacker, but mostly is referred to by the Viking saying which means Brave and Bold warrior (''gunnr'' "war" and ''arr'' "warrior"). King Gunnar was a prominent king of medieval literature such as the Middle High German epic poem, the Nibelungenlied, where King Gunnar and Queen Brynhildr hold their court at Worms. Gunder is a nordic variant, Günther is the modern German variant, and Gonario is the Italian version. Some people with the name Gunnar include: Gunnar Andersen *Gunnar Andersen (1890–1968), Norwegian football player and ski jumper *Gunnar Andersen (1909–1988), Norwegian ski jumper *Gunnar Aagaard Andersen (1919–1982), Danish sculptor, painter and designer ** Gunnar Reiss-Andersen (1896–1964), Norwegian poet Gunnar Andersson *Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960), Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist * Gunnar Andersson (1890 ... [...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] |
Tita Vinther
Tita may refer to: People Given name and nickname * Tita (Lord Byron) (1798-1874), full name Giovanni Battista Falcieri, personal servant of Lord Byron * Tita Bărbulescu (1936-2021), Romanian folk singer * Tita Rădulescu (1904-unknown), Romanian bobsledder * Tita Merello (1904-2002), Argentine actress and dancer * Tita Muñoz (1926-2009), Filipina actress * Tita Duran (1929-1991), Filipina actress * Tita Kovač Artemis (1930-2016), Slovene chemist and writer * Tita de Villa (1931-2014), Filipina actress * Tita Mandeleau (born 1937), Senegalese writer * Tita Valencia (born 1938), Mexican novelist and poet * Tita Cervera (born 1943), Spanish socialite and former Miss Spain * Tita Swarding (1952-2013), Filipino radio broadcaster * Tita (footballer, born 1958), full name Milton Queiroz da Paixão, Brazilian football manager and former forward * Tita von Hardenberg (born 1968), German noblewoman and television journalist * Tita (footballer, born 1981), full name Sidney Cristia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zacharias Heinesen
Zacharias Heinesen (born 1936 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese painter. He is the son of the writer and artist William Heinesen. He attended Myndlistaskóli Íslands in Reykjavik between 1957 and 1958. In 1959–1963 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. In 1962, he returned to Tórshavn and established a hilltop studio overlooking the city and harbour. His works include oil paintings, watercolour paintings, drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and paper collages. Through the years he has held a number of exhibitions and his paintings are to be found in several museums, including his 1987 painting ''Vár'' depicting a Faroese village in spring, which can be seen in the Listasavn Føroya (National Art Gallery) in Torshavn. In 1986 he was awarded the Henry Heerup prize. His paintings were featured on a series of stamps in June 2001: Image:Faroe_stamp_396_zacharias_heinesen_-_the_artist's_mother.jpg, The artist's mother Image:Faroe_stamp_397_zacharias_heinesen_-_uti_a_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
