Rikard Sigmund Long (January 23, 1889 – December 16, 1977) was a Faroese teacher, writer, and politician for the People's Party. Long was born in

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, the son of Georg Long from

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and Svanhilda Pálsson from

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.Long, Rikard. 1979. Kveikt og kannað. Tórshavn: Føroya skúlabókagrunnur, pp. 12–13.Jones, W. Glyn. 1992. Faroese literature. In: Sven Hakon Rossel, ed. ''A History of Danish Literature'', pp. 545–585. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p. 558. He passed his ''

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'' in 1907 and his ''

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'' in 1909. He enrolled at the

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in 1909, initially studying medicine and later switching to languages, but he never took any exams. He was a teacher at the Tórshavn Nautical School ( fo, Tórshavnar skiparaskúli) from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 to 1920, and then taught at the Faroese Middle and High School ( fo, Føroya Millum- og Realskúli) from 1921 to 1954. He headed the Copenhagen Student Union from 1916 to 1918, the Tórshavn Theater Society from 1928 to 1930, the Faroese Youth Association ( fo, Føroya Ungmannafelag) from 1932 to 1943, and the Faroese Teachers' Association from 1933 to 1942. He served as a board member of Varðin press from 1919 to 1950 and headed it from 1935 to 1950. Lang served in the

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as a representative from the South Streymoy ( fo, Suðurstreymoy) district from 1943 to 1958, and he was also a member of Kristian Djurhuus's first administration (1950–1954). Long was one of the best-known Faroese literary critics, and he was awarded the

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for fiction in 1976. He died in Tórshavn.

Selected works

* 1939: ''Færøerne, Danmark, Grønland'' (The Faroes, Denmark, Greenland) * 1964: ''Fornnorrøn Lesibók I–II'' (Old Norse Reader I–II) * 1979: ''Kveikt og kannað''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Long, Rikard Government ministers of the Faroe Islands Members of the Løgting Faroese writers Danish literary critics People from Tórshavn 1889 births 1977 deaths Faroese male writers