Ole Korneliussen

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Ole Korneliussen (born April 10, 1947 in Nanortalik ) is a Greenlandic writer .

Life

Ole Korneliussen was born in Nanortalik in South Greenland, but spent his childhood in Aasiaat and Nuuk . In 1967 he moved to Denmark. In 1973 he published his first collection of poems, Putoq . With the novella Seqinnersumi apisoq he won a literary competition of the Nordens Institute in Greenland in 1987 . In 1999 he was nominated for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council for the poetry collection Uumasoqat . In his works, Ole Korneliussen deals sarcastically with both Greenlandic and Danish social issues . He translated many of his works into Danish himself.

Works

  • 1973: Putoq (hole)
  • 1990: Seqinnersumi apisoq (It's snowing in the sunshine)
  • 1991: Putoq nutaaq (New Hole)
    • 1993: Glamhuller (church bell window )
  • 1992: Uumasoqat (animal companion)
    • 1998: Det andet dyr (The Other Beast)
    • 2009: Qivittoq - Verhalen uit Groenland (Qivittoq - Tales from Greenland; translated into Dutch by Tekke Terpstra)
  • 1999: Tarrarsuummi tarraq (reflection in the mirror)
    • 2000: Saltstøtten (The Stone Pillar )
    • 2002: Saltstoden (The stone column; translated into Swedish by Inge Knutsson)
  • 2009: Meerannguatut ilinngikkuni (If he doesn't act like a small child)
    • 2011: En spytklat på kinden (A little bit of spit on the cheek)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kirsten Thisted: Ny roman af Ole Korneliussen - Saltstøtten - En introduction til bogen og forfatterskabet in the Tidsskriftet Grønland (2001/1)
  2. ↑ Iben Hasselbalch: Glass kaster skygge: Om Litterær oversættelse . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1999, ISBN 978-87-00-33422-9 , pp. 181 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Biography in Den Store Danske
personal data
SURNAME Korneliussen, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanortalics