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Greenland (Denmark)

Author · Greenland (Denmark)

Frederik Nielsen

Died in 1991

Frederik Nielsen was born in 1905. A schoolteacher trained in Denmark, he was also a poet and a politician, and is counted among the Greenlandic writers committed to the modernisation of the country. According to Signe Michelsen, he was the first Greenlander to graduate from a Danish teacher training college, in Tønder, and later headed Greenland's radio from 1956 to 1967. He wrote other novels and poems, translated songs by Grundtvig into Greenlandic, and died in 1991.

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