Villads Villadsen (writer)

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Villads Jørgen Gabriel Ove Villadsen (born January 11, 1916 in Avannarliit , † January 22, 2006 in Qasigiannguit ) was a Greenlandic writer , poet , composer , catechist and teacher .

Life

Villads Villadsen was born in early 1916 in the settlement of Avannarliit ( Nordre Huse in Danish ), which has been abandoned for decades and was about four kilometers north of Ilimanaq . His parents were the hunter Peter Jakob Josef (or Jes) Villadsen and his wife Julie Judithe Maren Johansen.

From 1932 he attended the Efterskole in Aasiaat and from 1934 the college in Nuuk . Two years later he moved to Grønland's seminarium , which he completed in 1938. Immediately afterwards he was employed as head catechist and teacher in Tasiilaq . In 1945 he moved to Qeqertarsuaq , in 1961 back to Tasiilaq and in 1967 to Qasigiannguit , where he retired in 1988.

For years he was active in the self-founded scout movement in Qeqertarsuaq and founded choirs . His most important merit, however, are his dozens of novels, textbooks, articles, lyrics, compositions, poems, and plays. The most important works are his debut novel Jensi ( German  Jens ) from 1958 and his poetry cycle Nalusuunerup taarnerani ( German  In the darkness of paganism ) from 1965.

He died on January 22, 2006 a few days after his 90th birthday in Qasigiannguit.

The Efterskole Villads Villadsen in Qasigiannguit is named after him. On September 6, 1991 he received the Nersornaat in silver. Other prizes include the 1985 Greenland Culture Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. Church registers Qasigiannguit 1910–1933 (Born boys I p. 9)
  2. Church registers Qasigiannguit 1890–1909 (married people, p. 122)
  3. a b Jan. René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 70 .
  4. Villadsen var vellidt at Knr.gl
  5. Christian Berthelsen : Villads Villadsen - en aktiv folkelig forfatter in the Tidsskriftet Grønland (1/1996)
  6. Villads Villadsen død at knr.gl
  7. Villads Villadsen at litteraturpriser.dk