Magnus Larsen

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Gedion Otto Magnus Mathias Larsen (born August 29, 1931 in Kitsissuarsuit ) is a Greenlandic pastor , provost , writer , editor and local politician .

Life

Magnus Larsen is the son of the hunter Nathaniel Otto Jens Tønnes Larsen (1898–1968) and his wife Sofie Maline Abigael Benigne Larsen (1909–1941). On December 26, 1960, he married the teacher Malene Jakobine Bertha Jensen (* 1935).

Magnus Larsen attended the Efterskole in Aasiaat from 1948 to 1950 , then the secondary school in Nuuk until 1954 and then studied at the teachers' college in Haslev with a focus on literature and theology. From 1959 to 1963 he studied at Københavns Universitet and was then ordained . In the first year he was pastor in Qaqortoq , moved to Upernavik in 1964 , to Qaanaaq in 1965 , to Sisimiut in 1968 , to Narsaq in 1973 and to Aasiaat in 1974. In 1980 he was appointed provost of Kujataa Provsteqarfik.

From 1971 he was chairman of the Peqatigiinniat people's movement . He also sat in several church-related committees and was a member of the district administration of the Danish Pastors' Association from 1971 and its chairman from 1980. He was also chairman of the People's Enlightenment Council (1980–1984) and the Radio Administration (1982–1984), of which he had been an administrative member since 1980. From 1979 to 2001 he was a board member at Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa . From 1979 to 1987 he was Vice-Chairman of the Greenland Tax Council and from 1979 to 1983 a member of the Board of Directors of Knud Rasmussenip Højskolia . From 1979 to 1980 he sat on the council of the municipality of Aasiaat .

Magnus Larsen is also active as a writer. He wrote his first poem when he was nine and has edited around 40 works since then. In 1987 he founded his own publishing house. From 1980 to 1999 he was editor of the Greenland church journal Katingat . He was made a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog in 1989, received the Nersornaat in gold on November 22, 1992, was awarded the Atuakkiortut Literature Prize of the Greenland Literature Association in 2013 , the Greenland Culture Prize in 2014 , and in 2018 for his autobiography Illinois ingerlavik inussiviuvoq for the Nordic Literature Prize Council nominated.

Works (selection)

  • 1970: Oĸalûtsit
  • 1987: Ilagiissusermi (co-author)
  • 1982: Ilagiittut Inuunermi
  • 2005: Kitsissuarsuit inuilu
  • 2017: Illinersiorluni ingerlavik inussiviuvoq

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 44 .
  2. ↑ Church registers Aasiaat 1929-1934 (Born boys p. 20)
  3. ^ A b c Jan René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 40 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Nordisk Litteraturpris at atuakkiortut.net
  5. ↑ Kulturpris on the Naalakkersuisut website
personal data
SURNAME Larsen, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larsen, Gedion Otto Magnus Mathias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic pastor, provost, writer, editor and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitsissuarsuit