Oddvør Johansen

ÈOddvør Johansen ( born October 30, 1941 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands ) is a Faroese writer and organist at the Cathedral of Tórshavn.

Biography

Oddvør was born in 1941 as a subsidiary organ builder Verland Johansen and Ebba Restorff. Her father was actually a furniture designer, saddled with 50 years but as an organ builder and made to 20 organs for churches in the Faroe Islands. She grew up in a very musical family, which also later reflected in her novels. After the divorced first marriage, she moved to one of two adopted children to Denmark and married in 1978 the violinist Kanny Sambleben, with whom she had two more children. Your step-daughter, the famous flautist Michala Petri, comes from Samblebens first marriage. 1987 returned Oddvør Johansen with her ​​husband and children to the Faroe Islands back.

Oddvør Johansen made ​​his debut in 1982 with the novel Lívsins summar ( "Summer of Life" ), for which she won the 1983 Literature Prize of the Faroe Islands. It was one of the first women's novels of the Faroe Islands and has been translated into Danish and Swedish. In 1988 she was awarded the Children's Book Award for the municipality Tórshavn Skip í eygsjón ( "Ship in eye width " ), a realistic novel, the beginning of the 19th century plays. 2001, her historical novel Í was he Morgin aftur a Dagur ( "Tomorrow is another day " ) nominated for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council, whom she does not get. In 2002, she again received the Literature Prize of the Faroe Islands, this time for the novel Tá ID eg havi Malad summarhúsið ( "When I anmalte summer house "). In 2004, she won with the Roman Sebastian hús ( " Sebastian's house" ) the novel competition of the art meeting of the Faroe Islands ( Listastevna Føroya ) and 150,000 crowns. The novel it also appeared in Icelandic.

2006 saw her short story "It's good to be strong, Mary! " (God he at cause sterkur, Maria! ) In German. There, the narrator is an older local- writer who ironically deals with the young " literature Pope " Carl Jensen Jóhan that provides all poetic traditions into question.

Oddvør Johansen can - like most Faroese authors - due to the small domestic market and in spite of her many book titles do not live by the writing, but has to rely on her career as organist at the Tórshavn Cathedral and organ students. You heard claims to still be the generation that wrote their works by hand ( pencil).

Bibliography

• From 2006 - "It's good to be strong, Mary! " (God he at cause sterkur, Maria) in: "From Islands I know ... " stories of the Faroe Islands (Translated by Inga Meincke, edited by Verena Stöss Inger and Anna Katharina Dömling / Union publishing ) ( review in the newspaper )

• 2005 - Sebastianshús ( Icelandic)

Discography

Secondary literature

• Malan Marnersdóttir: Vold og litteratur. , 2005. ( Discussing the amendment Sjúti ferðir sjey feriðir ( " 70 times 7 times " ) from Bella Katrina (1990 ) in Danish )