Katti Frederiksen

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Katti Frederiksen (born March 12, 1982 in Narsaq ) is a Greenlandic writer , poet and linguist .

Life

Katti Frederiksen was born in 1982 as the daughter of the sheep farmer Sofus Frederiksen and the politician Suka K. Frederiksen (1965-2020). In addition to Greenland, she was trained in Alaska , Canada and Denmark . She has lived in Nuuk since 2004 , where she studied language, literature and media at the Ilisimatusarfik . She completed her studies in 2011 with a candidate degree . Since 2008 she has been working at the Greenland Language Institute, the Oqaasileriffik , which she later took over.

In 2006 she published the collection of poems and short stories Uummatima kissaa (Warmth of my heart). In 2012 she published her second volume of poetry 100% Eskimo Inuk . Her poems deal with the Greenlandic language and the Greenlanders' sense of identity.

Katti Frederiksen is the mother of two sons.

Works

  • 2006: Uummatima kissaa
  • 2012: 100% Eskimo Inuk

literature

  • Karen Langgård: Frederiksen, Katti . In: Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber (eds.): Le Dictionnaire universel des Créatrices . des femmes, 2013, ISBN 978-2-7210-0651-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Katti Frederiksen's blog at Blogspot
  2. ↑ a b Kirsten Thisted: Mine he finished også en form for oprør! ... interview with Katti Frederiksen in the Tidsskriftet Grønland (2013/4)
  3. ↑ a b Katti Frederiksen at fynsvaerk.dk
  4. ↑ Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo, Hanus Kamban, Tungutaq Larsen, Rawnda Carita Eira, Leo Löthman, Gerdur Kristný: Kanonisk selskabsleg i nordisk litteratur . Ed .: Randi Benedigte Brodersen. Nordic Council , Copenhagen 2013, ISBN 978-92-893-2660-5 , p. 235 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Frederiksen, Katti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic writer, poet and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Narsaq