William Heinesen (1900–1991)
Auteur van The Lost Musicians
Over de Auteur
As a young man in the Faroe Islands, William Heinesen thought of a profession in art or music. His early poetry from the 1920s---he writes in Danish rather than Faroese---demonstrates keen sensitivity to the powerful sensual contrasts of nature in the Atlantic islands. In the 1930s, his elegiac and toon meer ecstatic pantheism had a strong effect on readers' social awareness. Of novels from this period, Noatun (1938) has appeared in an English translation in Great Britain. In this novel, the reader meets the vital people of a Faroese settlement bravely surviving storms, sickness, and exploitation as they struggle to establish a noatun, or new town. The Faroese people's individualism and sharp beauty are Heinesen's subjects; his strong satire, humor, and imagination have made him one of Denmark's finest prose writers. The Lost Musicians (1950) and The Kingdom of the Earth (1952) share many of the same characters, created by Heinesen to depict fantastic events in Torshavn a generation or so ago. In Heinesen's rich fantasy is an expression of the antinaturalism and antirealism that also mark the writing of the Danes Isak Dinesen and Martin A. Hansen. It is not necessary to have even heard of the Faroes to enjoy the magic of William Heinesen. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Postverk Føroya - Philatelic Office
Werken van William Heinesen
The Tower at the Edge of the World: A Poetic Mosaic Novel about My Earliest Youth (1976) 25 exemplaren
Det fortryllede lys 11 exemplaren
Kur mod onde ånder 4 exemplaren
Färöisk konst 3 exemplaren
Gamaliels besættelse 2 exemplaren
Digte af William Heinesen 2 exemplaren
Það á að dansa : Nýjar sögur frá Þórshöfn 1 exemplaar
Föroysk list 1 exemplaar
Töfralampinn 1 exemplaar
Fjandinn hleypur í Gamalíel 1 exemplaar
Glataðir snillingar 1 exemplaar
Den dunkle sol 1 exemplaar
Himmelen smiler : Noveller 1 exemplaar
Færøerne 1 exemplaar
"Chernyi kotel. Propashchie muzykanty" 1 exemplaar
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- Heinesen, William
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- 1900-01-15
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- 1991-03-12
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- Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark (birth | death)
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- Danish Academy (1961)
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