Jens Pauli Heinesen

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Jens Pauli Heinesen (born November 12, 1932 in Sandavágur , Faroe Islands , † July 19, 2011 ) was a Faroese writer . He was one of the most prolific and popular writers in the Faroese language .

Life

Jens Pauli, born in Sandavágur in 1932, was the son of Petur Heinesen á Lofti, a farmer from Sandavágur, and Anna Maria Malena Heinesen, née Johannesen from Hestur . Since August 11, 1956, Heinesen was married to Maud Brimheim († September 7, 2005) from Klaksvík . The singer and manager Elin Heinesen is their daughter, and they also had a Korean adopted daughter .

Jens Pauli Heinesen grew up in Sandavágur on the island of Vágar . At the age of 14 he went to Tórshavn, where he graduated from high school in 1952. He then moved to Denmark, where he passed his teacher examination in 1956 and initially also taught until he returned to the Faroe Islands in 1957. He gave up teaching in 1970 to devote himself entirely to writing. As early as 1968/69 he and his family took a break in southern Spain, where he wrote the novel Frænir eitur ormurin .

Heinesen is considered one of the "gentle innovators" of Faroese literature in the 1950s. His early work was influenced by James Joyce and the Nouveau Roman , so he later turned to more traditional narrative styles, to which he owes his popularity in the Faroe Islands. In addition to numerous novels and short stories, he also wrote four plays. One novel and one story have so far been published in German translation.

From 1968 to 1975 Heinesen was the chairman of the Faroese Writers' Union .

He received the Faroe Islands Literature Prize four times: 1959 ( Hin vakra kvirran ), 1969 ( Aldurnar spæla á sandi ), 1973 ( Frænir eitur ormurin ) and 1993 ( Bláfelli ). In 1999 he received the Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins (National Culture Prize of the Faroe Islands).

German translations

  • A child here on earth . Meysenburg, Essen 2002. ISBN 3-930508-08-7 . (Roman. Translated from Faroese: Otmar Werner, original title: Nú ert tú mansbarn á foldum , 1980, first part of the seven-part Á ferð inn í eina óendaliga søgu )
  • "Gestur". In: "I know about islands ..." Stories from the Faroe Islands . Edited by Verena Stössinger and Anna Katharina Dömling. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2006. ISBN 3-293-00366-4 . (Short story from the Gestur collection of the same name from 1967. Translated from Faroese: Inga Meincke and Verena Stössinger)

Secondary literature

  • Gert Kreutzer (Ed.): Presentations. Icelandic and Faroese contemporary authors. Guðbergur Bergsson, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Jens Pauli Heinesen . Cologne, 2002. 167 p. (Artes et Literae Septentrionales. Cologne Studies on Literature, Art and Theater Studies, 14.) (Therein: Jens Pauli Heinesen, “To save the world”, pp. 129-47; Jógvan Isaksen : “Sacrifice and executioner. Jens Pauli Heinesen's literary work ”, pp. 148-67.)
  • Martin Næs "I never promised you a Rosegarden!" in: Bogens Verden , 1999, no. 6, p. 33-35. [Jens Pauli Heinesen.]
  • Malan Simonsen : "'Frænir eitur ormurin' - the politiske og kunstneriske program". In: Literature as Resistance and Counter-Culture . 1993. pp. 479-84. [Jens Pauli Heinesen.]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Pauli Heinesen , snar.fo
personal data
SURNAME Heinesen, Jens Pauli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandavágur , Faroe Islands
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2011