Hanus Kamban

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Hanus Kamban (born June 25, 1942 in Saltangará , Faroe Islands as Hanus Andreassen ), name change in 2000, is a Faroese writer , publicist, publisher and translator.

Hanus is the son of the teacher couple Petur Andreassen from Velbastaður and Elisabeth, née Kamban from Tórshavn . He grew up with his parents on the island of Skúgvoy . In 1956 they moved to Tórshavn, where he graduated from high school in 1960. He then worked as a substitute teacher and worker until he attended the Eurocentre in Bournemouth from 1964–65 and studied English and German at the Copenhagen College from 1966–68 . Because of the student unrest, he broke off his studies. 1967-69 he was editor of the magazine Fjølnir and then co-editor of Oyggjaskeggja . In 1975 he finished his training as a nurse.

Hanus Andreassen made his debut in 1976 with the short story Undir tínum veingjabreiði (Under Your Wings ), which was published in German in 2006, and was chairman of the Faroese Writers' Union from 1992-94 . His most important work is the monumental biography of Janus Djurhuus , which was translated into Danish in 2001 by his wife Kirsten Brix . The three-volume work (Danish edition: 2 volumes) is at the same time a kind of literary history of the Faroe Islands from the 19th to the middle of the 20th century.

In 1980 Hanus Andreassen received the Faroe Islands Literature Prize for specialist literature and in 1986 the same prize, but this time in the category of fiction . At the Listastevna Føroya (Faroe Islands Art Meeting ) 2001 he won the short story competition with Angels Place . In 2003 he was nominated for the short story book Pílagrímar (The Pilgrims, 2001) for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council , which he did not receive. The Faroe Islands Culture Prize ( Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins ), endowed with 150,000 crowns, followed in 2004 for his oeuvre, highlighting the above. Djurhuus biography. In addition, he received two working grants from the Danish State Art Fund . In June 2007 he was awarded a lifelong grant by the Danish government.

Works

  • 1976 - Undir tínum veingjabreiði
    • 2006 - "Under your wings" in: "I know about islands ..." Stories from the Faroe Islands (translated by Birgit Remmel, edited by Verena Stössinger and Anna Katharina Dömling / Unionsverlag) ( review in the Süddeutsche Zeitung )
  • 1979 - Kveikt og kannað (poems, articles and translations by Rikard Long , edited together with Ebba Hentze , Faroe Islands Literature Prize 1980 for specialist literature)
  • 1980 - Dóttir av Proteus (short stories, Faroese Literature Prize 1986)
  • 1982 - Við tendraðum lyktum (short stories, Faroese Literature Prize 1986)
  • 1985 - Tíðartinnur (collection of articles)
  • 1986 - Hotel heyst (short stories, Faroese Literature Prize 1986)
  • 1994 - Hjalmar Söderberg (biography)
  • 1994 - JHO Djurhuus - a bókmentalig ævisøga I (biography)
    • 1995 - JHO Djurhuus - a bókmentalig ævisøga II (2nd volume)
    • 1997 - JHO Djurhuus - a bókmentalig ævisøga III (3rd volume)
      • 2001 JHO Djurhuus: en litteraer biografi , Universitetsforlag, Odense 2001 (Odense University studies in Scandiavian language and literature; 46. 2 volumes, I. 1881-1922, II. 1922-1948. Translated from the Faroese by Kirsten Brix)
  • 2000 - Tann bráðvakra hugsjónin (collection of articles)
  • 2000 - Heystveingir (acting)
  • 2001 - Heimahøllin (cantata with Kári Bæk )
  • 2001 - Pílagrímar (short stories, nominated for the Nordic Literature Prize 2003)
    • Translations in Danish and Estonian
    • 2004 - Pílagrímar (audio book on 6 CDs or cassette tapes, a total of 6 hours)
  • 2002 - Tað nýggja Atlantis (short stories)
  • 2007 - Hjarta uttan fylgisneyta: Herman Bang 150 ár (essay)
  • 2008 - Cafe Europa (poems)
  • 2010 - Gullgentan
    • Translations in Danish

Translations

Web links

Commons : Hanus Kamban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Syddansk Universitetsforlag (about the work in Danish)
  2. ↑ Mentanarvirðislønir MA Jacobsens 1980 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (in Faroese)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.byarbok.fo
  3. ↑ Mentanarvirðislønir MA Jacobsens 1986 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (in Faroese) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.byarbok.fo
  4. ↑ Faroese Ministry of Culture: Hanus Kamban og Ólavur Hátún heiðraðir ( Memento of the original dated February 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 1, 2004 (in Faroese) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mmr.fo
  5. ↑ Portal.fo , June 21, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Kamban, Hanus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreassen, Hanus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese writer, publicist, publisher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Saltangará , Faroe Islands