Carl Jóhan Jensen
Carl Jóhan Jensen ( born December 2, 1957 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese writer, literary critic, journalist and translator.
Jensen was born in Tórshavn and grew up in Tinghúsvegur on (this is the road at Løgtingsgebäude and the former headquarters of the Faroese Telecom). In 1973 he went to Denmark, where in 1976 he graduated from high school. In the same year he moved back to the Faroe Islands and worked there as a journalist. Until 1981 he studied Scandinavian (focus Faroese language and literature) at the University of the Faroe Islands. Until 1987 he continued to study in Iceland general literature and Icelandic. Together with his wife, Kate Sanderson, he then spent a year in her native Australia. In 1990 he graduated as cand phil. at the University of the Faroe Islands. After that, the family lived in Tromsø, where his wife 1993-98 General Secretary of NAMMCO was ( North Atlantic Marine Mammal organization ).
1989 Jensen received the Literature Prize of the Faroe Islands for his previous work as a whole. 1991-92 he was chairman of Rithøvundafelag Føroya ( Writers' Union of the Faroe Islands ) 1998 Jensen was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received but did not. In 2006 he again received the Literature Prize of the Faroe Islands.
2007 Jensen was again nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize ( but did not get ), this time for his novel Ó - søgur to djevulsskap ( " O - stories about the diabolical " ) ..