Faroese Poet
1. Jens Christian Djurhuus (1773)
Faroese Poet
Jens Christian Djurhuus or Sjóvarbóndin was the first poet who wrote in Faroese. He composed several Faroese ballads in traditional style on historical themes. The best known is Ormurin langi....
2. Guðrið Helmsdal (1941)
Faroese Poet
Guðrið Helmsdal Nielsen is a Faroese poet. Her birthname was Guðrið Helmsdal Poulsen later she was married and took her husbands lastname Nielsen when she writes she calles herself Guðrið...
3. Joen Danielsen (1843)
Faroese Poet
Joen Danielsen Known as Kvívíks-Jógvan . He married and settled in the town of Gjógv. Kvívíks-Jógvan was one of the earliest traditional Faroese poets to write poems in the Faroese...
4. J.P. Gregoriussen (1845)
Faroese Poet
J. P. Gregoriussen grew up with Joen Danielsen in Kvívík when V. U. Hammershaimb was parish priest there. A poet and a writer his poetry was well known in...
5. Sigri Mitra Gaïni (1975)
Faroese Poet
Sigri Mitra Gaïni is a Faroese poet actress and school teacher. She grew up in Norway and in the Faroe Islands. She has published four collections with poems written...
6. Jóannes Patursson (1866)
Faroese Poet
Jóannes Patursson was a Faroese nationalist leader and poet. He was the great-grandson of the Faroese national hero Nólsoyar Páll. His brother Sverre Patursson was an important writer and his...
7. Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen (1937)
Faroese Poet
Steinbjørn Berghamar Jacobsen was a Faroese poet teacher and writer. He was known as a children's writer but his works also included short stories plays and novels. He was awarded...
8. Kristian Osvald Viderø (1906)
Faroese Poet
Kristian Osvald Viderø was a Faroese clergyman poet and Bible translator. After theological studies in Denmark he oversaw the completion of a translation of the Old Testament into the Faroese...
9. Janus Djurhuus (1881)
Faroese Poet
Jens Hendrik Oliver Djurhuus called Janus Djurhuus was the first modern Faroese poet. He and his younger brother Hans Andreas Djurhuus also a poet are called the Áarstova brothers after...
10. Christian Matras (poet) (1900)
Faroese Poet
Christian Matras was born at Viðareiði. He took a doctor’s degree in Old Norse in 1933 from the University of Copenhagen and in 1952 he became a professor at the...
11. Rói Patursson (1947)
Faroese Poet
Rói Reynagarð Patursson is a Faroese writer and philosopher. He is also the director of the Folk High School of the Faroes. He was born in Tórshavn Faroe Islands. After...
