Malan Marnersdóttir (born January 25, 1952) is a Faroese academic and non-fiction writer.

Biography

The daughter of Doctor Marner Andreas Simonsen and Anna Kristina Godtfred, she was born in

Klaksvík Klaksvík is the second largest town of the Faroe Islands behind Tórshavn. The town is located on Borðoy, which is one of the northernmost islands (the Norðoyar). It is the administrative centre of Klaksvík municipality. History The first se ...

and grew up in various places in the Faroe Islands and Denmark. She graduated from

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

Tórshavn Tórshavn (; lit. "Thor's harbour"), usually locally referred to as simply ''Havn'', is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of the city lies the ...

and went on to earn degrees in French from

Aarhus University Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Gr ...

and in Danish from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

. From 1979 to 1981, she taught high school in Tórshavn and, from 1981 to 1983, was a lecturer in Danish and Faroese at

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

in Germany. In 1983, she began teaching Faroese and Nordic literature and mass communications at the

University of the Faroe Islands The University of the Faroe Islands ( fo, Fróðskaparsetur Føroya) is a state-run university located in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. It consists of five faculties: Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature, Faculty of Social Sc ...

. Her area of research is women writers and the role of women in society in the Faroe Islands. She was rector for three years for the University of the Faroe Islands. Marnersdóttir was contributor and co-editor for the literary journal ''Brá'', which was published from 1982 to 1992. She has written about Faroese literature for various journals. With actor Laura Joensen, she wrote a play ''Logi, logi, eldur mín'' about Faroese writer Jóhanna Maria Skylv Hansen. She has also contributed articles on Faroese women writers to ''Nordisk kvindelitteraturhistorie'' ('' The History of Nordic Women's Literature''). She has been organizer for conferences held in the Faroe Islands by the International Association of Scandinavian Studies. In 1981, Marnersdóttir married Hans Laureng. The couple divorced in 1985.

Awards

She received the

Faroese Literature Prize The Faroese Literature Prize, also known as the Mentanarvirðisløn M. A. Jacobsens (M. A. Jacobsen's Cultural Award), is a prize for Faroese literature that was begun by the Tórshavnar kommuna (Tórshavn City Council) in 1958. Its winners includ ...

for non-fiction in 1993.

Selected works

* ''Kvinneøddir'' (1985), on women's involvement in the debate over the first Faroese language newspaper * ''Konurák'' (1989), a survey of the Faroese women's magazine ''Oyggjarnar'' * ''Fyri fyrst'' (1992), literary analysis of women writers * ''Bylgjurnar leika í trá'' (1992), literary analysis of women writers * ''Føroysk bókmentasøga'' Volume 1, with

Turið Sigurðardóttir Turið Sigurðardóttir (born 12 August 1946) is a Faroese educator, writer and translator, specializing in the history of Faroese literature. She lives in Tórshavn and teaches at the University of the Faroe Islands. Biography Born in Copenhagen, ...

(2011), History of Faroese Literature

References

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