Faroese Literature Prize
The Faroese Literature Prize, also known as Mentanarvirðisløn MA Jacobsen (MA Jacobsen Culture Award ) is the highest national award for Faroese literature.
The prize is awarded by the Tórshavn municipality since 1958 every year around September 17 ( MA Jacobsen's birthday) around. Until 1968 there was only one price but sometimes two writers shared. Since 1969 there are separate prices for Fiction ( fagurbókmentir ) and literature ( yrkisbókmentir ). Since 1983, a third prize for other cultural achievements has naturalized. None of the three prizes to be awarded, so there can be years where there is none, one or two winners.
Two of the winners here, William Heinesen and Rói Patursson also received the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council, which is the next higher price for Faroese authors. The Austrian Faroe researcher Ernst Krenn would also have liked to see in an essay Hans Andrias Djurhuus a Nobel Prize winner, but in his case there was no nomination.
Most of the authors are Faroese and the most excellent books published in Faroese language but also partly in Danish (eg in the case of William Hein Esen ).