Jógvan Isaksen

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Jógvan Isaksen at an event as part of the murder mystery festival Mord am Hellweg in Werne on November 1st, 2008

Jógvan Isaksen (born August 25, 1950 in Tórshavn , Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese writer , best known abroad for his crime novels .

Life

Jógvan is the son of Magnhild Isaksen and Reimar Isaksen, who both come from Gøta .

After graduating from high school in Tórshavn in 1970, he studied Scandinavian studies at the University of Aarhus , where he received his master's degree in Nordic literature in 1982 . As early as 1978 he became head of the oldest publishing house in Faroe Islands, "Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins", founded in 1914. Since 1986 he has been a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen , where he teaches Faroese . Since 2000 he has been editor-in-chief of the Nordic Council's Nordisk Litteratur magazine .

Jógvan Isaksen has been a writer since 1978 and received the Faroe Islands Literature Prize in 1994 for his specialist literary book Í hornatøkum við Prokrustes on the writer Hanus Andreassen (Hanus Kamban), but also for his oeuvre, which has Faroese literature as its main subject.

The crime thriller Blíð er summarnátt á Føroyalandi from 1990 was the first internationally recognized crime thriller in the Faroese language. Also brought into Danish by the author himself , it was translated into Icelandic after publication , and later also into German and English . The title literally means Mild is the summer night in the Faroe Islands , where he chose the poetic form Føroyaland for Føroyar . For the German new edition of 2006, the Faroe Islands terminus was chosen. The second of so far five titles about the journalist Hannis Martinsson - Gráur oktober - was published in 2007 in German under the title Option Färöer .

Works

(German titles highlighted in bold )

  • Føroyski Mentunarpallurin . Greinir og ummæli, 1983.
  • Ongin rósa er rósa allan dagin . Um skaldskapin hjá Róa Paturssyni, 1986.
  • Amariel Norðoy . Text: Jógvan Isaksen. Yrkingar: Rói Patursson . Saman við Anfinni Johansen, Dorthe Juul Myhre, Troels Mark Pedersen and Rógva Thomsen, 1987.
  • Í gráum eru allir litir . Bókmentagreinir, 1988.
  • At taka dagar ímillum. Um at ummæla og eitt úrval av ummælum, 1988.
  • Ingen rose er rose hele dagen. Rói Paturssons digtning. Implementation and viðgjørd av høvundinum, 1988.
  • A skúladagur í K. Føroyskar skemtisøgur . Í úrvali og við inngangi eftir Jógvan Isaksen, 1988.
  • Ingálvur av Reyni . Text: Gunnar Hoydal . With Dorthe Juul Myhre, Amariel Norðoy og Rógva Thomsen, 1989.
  • Blíð he summarnátt á Føroyalandi . Roman, 1990.
  • Brennivargurine . Roman, 1991.
  • Færøsk literature. Introduction og Punktnedslag . Det arnamagnæanske institut, 1992.
  • Ingi Joensen : Reflection . Fotobók. Saman við Dorthe Juul Myhre and Amariel Norðoy, 1992.
  • Í hornatøkum við Procrustes . Stuttsøgurnar hjá Hanusi Andreassen, 1993.
  • Færøsk literature . Forlaget Vindrose, 1993.
  • Gráur october . Roman, 1994.
    • Faroe Islands option . Grafit, 2007 (crime thriller)
  • Treð dans fyri steini . Bókmentagreinir, 1995.
  • Zacharias Heinesen . Text: Jógvan Isaksen. With Amariel Norðoy, Dorthe Juul Myhre, Helga Fossádal and Jon Hestoy, 1995. (Faroese, Danish and English)
  • Teir horvnu kirkjubøstólarnir . Roman, 1996.
  • Á ólavsøku . A summarkrimi í 9 pørtum, 1996.
  • Var Kafka klaksvíkingur? 26 ummælir, 1996.
  • Tekstur til Amariel Norðoy . Norðurlandahúsið í Føroyum, 1997.
  • Omkring Barbara . Greinasavn. Saman við Jørgen Fisker, Nils Malmros and John Mogensen, 1997.
  • Homo Viator . To skaldskapin hjá Gunnari Hoydal, 1997.
  • William Heinesen : Excursion i underverdenen . I udvalg og med efterskrift af Jógvan Isaksen, 1998.
  • Á verðin, verðin! Skaldsøgan "Barbara" eftir Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, 1998.
  • Barbara og tann horvna bamsan , 1999.
  • Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen : The yderste kyst - and other essays . I udvalg og med efterskrift af Jógvan Isaksen, 1999.
  • Ingálvur av Reyni . Víðkað og broytt útgáva. Saman við Amariel Norðoy, Dorthe Juul Myhre and Gunnari Hoydal, 2000.
  • Lives ingenious relief . Omkring Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen's novel Barbara, 2001.
  • Krossmessa . Roman, 2005.
  • Norðlýsi . Novel, 2009.
  • 2010 - Norska Løva , (crime fiction, about the detective Hannis Martinsson). Norska Løva or Norske Løve refers to a Danish ship that sank in Lambavík in the Faroe Islands on December 31, 1707. About 100 men survived and 14 died.
  • 2011 - Deydningar dansa á Sandi , (crime fiction, about the detective Hannis Martinsson)
  • 2012 - Tann fimti maðurin , (crime fiction, about the detective William Hammer)
  • 2013 - Prædikarin . (Crime fiction, about the detective William Hammer), Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins
  • 2014 - At myrða við skrivaraborðið Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins.
  • 2014 - Vølundarhús . (Crime fiction, about the detective Hannis Martinsson). Mentunargrunnur student table tagsins.
  • 2015 - Hitt blinda liðið . (Crime fiction, about the detective William Hammer). Mentunargrunnur student table tagsins. ISBN 978-99918-75-38-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aktuelt.fo, Áttanda krimisøgan ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Ritograk.fo ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Tann fimti maðurin, Jógvan Isaksen
  3. ↑ oyggjatidindi.com - AT MYRÐA VIÐ SKRIVARABORÐIÐ - TÍÐINDABRÆV FRÁ MENTUNARGRUNNI STUDENT BOARD AGSINS
  4. ↑ ms.fo - JÓGVAN ISAKSEN: AT MYRÐA VIÐ SKRIVARABORÐIÐ
personal data
SURNAME Isaksen, Jógvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tórshavn