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

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. 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

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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 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 esta ...

(''Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins''). He was the first person to receive this annual award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Regin 1918 births 2007 deaths Faroese male poets Faroese composers Faroese Literature Prize recipients 20th-century Faroese poets People from Tórshavn 20th-century Danish male writers