Gunnar Hoydal

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Gunnar Hoydal (born September 12, 1941 in Copenhagen , with home in Tórshavn , Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese writer and architect , he was chairman of the writers' association of the Faroe Islands .

Life

Gunnar Hoydal is the son of Karsten Hoydal and Marie Luise Hoydal, née Falk-Rønne. In addition to his twin brother Kjartan , he has the older brother Egil and the younger sister Annika . He and his wife Jette, née Dahl, have the children Marianna, Kristina and Dánial . His nephew Høgni is the son of his twin brother and is known as a politician beyond the Faroe Islands.

After the isolation of the Faroe Islands from the “motherland” Denmark in World War II , the family returned to the Faroe Islands in 1945 with the first passenger steamer, the M / S Aarhus . Many then and future intellectuals were on board, the country's young elite, who were locked in Copenhagen when the war broke out.

1946–1950 the family lived in Klaksvík and later moved to the capital Tórshavn. In his parents' house he grew up with sheep, cattle, chickens and geese. He went to the village school of Hoyvík , later to the municipal school of Tórshavn and then to the secondary school. But in 1954 the family moved to South America , where his father built a fish factory on behalf of the FAO in Manta , Ecuador until 1957.

Gunnar Hoydal was sent to Sorø Akademi in Denmark in 1955 , where he graduated from high school in languages ​​in 1960. In 1961 he took his mathematical exam and the Philosophikum in the same year. He studied classical philology , ancient Greek , early history , art history and architecture .

1967–1972 Hoydal worked in various architectural offices in Copenhagen and in 1969 won a Nordic architectural competition for the Tórshavner old town. Since then he has been an urban planning consultant for the municipality of Tórshavn . In 1972 he received the title of “Tórshavn City Architect”. In the 70s and 80s he was responsible for the extensive urban development of Tórshavn. For his work, especially in the old town, he was awarded the Danish Danske Arkitekters Æreskaleidoskop award. In 1997, on the 25th anniversary of his service, he ended his career as an architect in order to only work as an author and translator from then on.

His literary work includes poems, song texts (for his sister Annika), various fiction and specialist literature on Faroese visual arts and artists.

Among his many activities and offices there are:

  • 1965–1969 - editor-in-chief of the Framin newspaper in Copenhagen
  • 1969–1972 - Head of the Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins publishing house
  • 1977–1981 - editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Varðin
  • 1981–1986 and 1998–2004 Chairman of the Writers' Union of the Faroe Islands
  • 1982–1988 - Founder and first chairman of the artists' association LISA
  • 1982–1988 - Member of the Løgtings Culture Fund
  • 1980–1996 - Chairman of the Faroe Islands Architects' Association
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Faroe Islands Art Museum

Awards

Works

  • Myndasavn, bók um listamannin Ingolf Jacobsen á Kamarinum , 1972 (artist biography)
  • Den gode vilje , together with Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen , 1976 (TV play in Danish for Danmarks Radio )
  • Av longum leiðum , 1982 (short stories and travelogues)
    • Långt bortifrån , 1992 (in Swedish)
    • From this: Lovesickness (Hjartasorg) and Far Away and Pale (Fjarur og følin) . In: "I know about islands ..." Stories from the Faroe Islands . Edited by Verena Stössinger and Anna Katharina Dömling, Unionsverlag 2006 ISBN 3-293-00366-4
  • With eget land , 1983, together with Annika Hoydal (songs)
  • Hús úr ljóði , 1988 (collection of poems)
  • Ingálvur av Reyni , together with others, 1989 (artist biography)
  • Dulcinea , 1990, together with Annika Hoydal (songs)
  • Undir Suðurstjørnum , 1991 (novel)
    • Stjernerne over Andes , 1996 (Danish translation)
    • Under Southern Stars , 2003 (English translation)
  • Tróndur Patursson , 1991 (artist biography) ´
  • Janus Kamban , 1995 (artist biography)
  • Skeyk , 1997 (musical for young people)
  • Havið , together with Annika Hoydal, 1999 (songs)
  • Dalurin Fagri , 1999 (novel)
  • Land í sjónum , 2001 (prose)

Secondary literature

  • Malan Marnersdóttir : ”Sprog og sted. Gunnar Hoydal's novel 'Undir suðurstjørnum' ”. In: The north abroad - abroad in the north. Forming and transformation of concepts and images of the other from the Middle Ages to today . Vienna, 2006. pp. 453-60.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoydal, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese writer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen