Juaaka Lyberth
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
- ↑ a b c Fødselsdage in the Atuagagdliutit of November 15, 1994
- ↑ a b Juaaka Lyberth at norden.org
- ↑ Asii at greenlandtoday.com
- ↑ Juaaka i København in Sermitsiaq
- ↑ Juaaka goes to Hollywood in Sermitsiaq
- ↑ Billedbog af Juaaka Lyberth nomineret til pris in Sermitsiaq
personal data | |
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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 |