Juaaka Lyberth

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Karl Johan "Juaaka" Lyberth (born November 19, 1952 in Uummannaq ) is a Greenlandic musician and writer .

Life

Juaaka Lyberth was born in Uummannaq. He went to school in Greenland and Denmark and then studied Eskimology at the University of Copenhagen . For a time he was director of the Katuaq cultural centers in Nuuk and Taseralik in Sisimiut . He worked as a radio program editor and debater for a long time. In the 1990s he was a member of the Nuuk Municipality Council for the Siumut . Juaaka Lyberth is married to the politician Asii Chemnitz Narup (* 1954), with whom he has two adopted children from South Korea .

He started a music career in 1968. From 1978 he formed a band that brought out the LP Alle mine frænder . With Fam and Saarfaarsunnguit , he also released two albums with children's songs. After a long break he released the album Naasumikpaju in 2011 . His lullaby Sinigit meerannguaq , which he wrote in 1974, was used in the 2013 film Gravity .

In 2000 he received the Greenland Culture Prize . In 2012, Juaaka's debut novel Nalequsseruttortut was published . Two years later the book appeared in Danish under the name Godt i vej . It's about growing up in Greenland in the 1960s. In 2014 he was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for this novel . His second book Orpilissat nunarsuarmi kusanarnersaat / Det smukkeste juletræ i verden was nominated for the Children's and Young People's Literature Prize of the West Nordic Council in 2020 .

Works

Discography

Albums
  • 1978: All mine frænder
  • 1979: Fam
  • 1982: Oqaluttuat
  • 1995: Saarfaarsunnguit
  • 2011: Naasumik paju

bibliography

  • 2012: Nalequsseruttortut (2014: Godt i vej )
  • 2019: Orpilissat nunarsuarmi kusanarnersaat (2019: Det smukkeste juletræ i verden )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fødselsdage in the Atuagagdliutit of November 15, 1994
  2. ↑ a b Juaaka Lyberth at norden.org
  3. ↑ Asii at greenlandtoday.com
  4. ↑ Juaaka i København in Sermitsiaq
  5. ↑ Juaaka goes to Hollywood in Sermitsiaq
  6. ↑ Billedbog af Juaaka Lyberth nomineret til pris in Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Lyberth, Juaaka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyberth, Karl Johan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic musician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Uummannaq