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Heðin Brú (pronounced [ˈhejɪn bɹʉu]; August 17, 1901, Skálavík – May 18, 1987, Tórshavn) was the pen-name of Hans Jacob Jacobsen, a Faroese novelist and translator.

Heðin Brú
1988 Faroese Commemorative Stamp.
BornAugust 17, 1901
Skálavík
DiedMay 18, 1987(1987-05-18) (aged 86)
Tórshavn

Heðin Brú is considered to be the most important Faroese writer of his generation and is known for his fresh and ironic style. His novel, Feðgar á ferð (The Old Man and His Sons), was chosen as the Book of the twentieth century by the Faroese.


Life and Works


Like many of his countrymen, Jacobsen worked as a fisherman in his early years. After two seasons, he left to study agriculture in Denmark. When he returned to the Faroes, he worked as an agricultural advisor—a job that took him to all parts of the country. The contacts he made with ordinary village people he met during this time had a lasting effect on his writing.

In 1930, his first novel, Lognbrá, which tells the story of a young man growing up in a Faroese village, was published. In 1935 there appeared its sequel, Fastatøkur, in which the young man works as a fisherman on a sloop. Both of these books were translated into Danish in 1946 and published under the title Høgni.

Feðgar á ferð, Brú's most famous work, was published in Faroese in 1940, in Danish in 1962 (Fattigmandsære), in German in 1966 (Des armen Mannes Ehre, a translation of the Danish title), and in English in 1970 under the title of The Old Man and his Sons. This was his first novel to be translated from Faroese into English. It tells the tale of the transformation of a rural society into a modern nation of fisheries and the conflicts between generations that result.

In 1963, he satirised the Faroese politics of the interwar period in his novel Leikum fagurt. His Men livið lær (1970) describes a Faroese village around 1800, and his Tað stóra takið of 1972 describes a similar village around a century later. While writing these novels, Heðin Brú also wrote three collections of novellas and translated two Shakespeare plays (Hamlet and The Tempest). He translated many pieces of world literature into Faroese. Between 1959 and 1974, he published a six-volume collection of Faroese fairy tales, Ævintýr I – VI (with illustrations by Elinborg Lützen). This is considered to be the standard work on the subject.

Jacobsen's son, Bárður Jákupsson, is considered by the Faroese to be the country's most important contemporary visual artist. [1]


Works



Translations


The following works of world literature were translated by Heðin Brú into Faroese:


Honors


Heðin Brú Memorial in his hometown of Skálavík
Heðin Brú Memorial in his hometown of Skálavík

References


General
Specific
  1. Kinna Poulsen. "Bárður Jákupsson". kunsten.nu. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. Flb.fo Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine (The National Library of the Faroe Islands)
  3. "Grái táttur". Archived from the original on 2006-01-03. Retrieved 2006-02-05.
  4. "Prof. M. Krysztofiak-Kaszynska". Archived from the original on 2006-02-28. Retrieved 2006-02-05.
  5. Donald J. Harlow. "Niklas Niklái". Archived from the original on 2006-02-08.
  6. "Current Issue of The Threepenny Review". www.threepennyreview.com. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
  7. "M?nchhausen auf F?ringisch". Archived from the original on 2006-02-18. Retrieved 2006-02-05.


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На других языках

- [en] Heðin Brú

[ru] Хедин Бру

Хедин Бру (настоящие имя и фамилия — Ханс Якоб Якобсен) (фар. Heðin Brú; 17 августа 1901 (1901-08-17), Скалавик, Сандой, Фарерские острова — 18 мая 1987, Торсхавн, Фарерские острова) — фарерский писатель и переводчик. Один из наиболее известных прозаиков Фарерских островов.


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