Mariane Petersen

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Mariane Petersen (born 1937 [1] ) is a Greenlandic poet, translator, museum curator, and politician. [2]

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Biography

Petersen was born in Maniitsoq, a town in western Greenland that was then known as Sukkertoppen. [3] She is trained as a translator and has translated various books from Danish into Greenlandic. [4] Significant works of translation include Vinterbørn by Dea Trier Mørch and Århundradets kärlekssaga by Märta Tikkanen. [5]

She also worked for many years as a curator at the Greenland National Museum, serving as director from 1982 until her retirement in 2004. [4] [6]

In 1988 she published her first volume of poetry, Niviugaq aalakoortoq allallu. It was the first poetry collection published by a woman in Greenlandic. For this work, she was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1993. That year she published Inuiaat nunaallu, an epic poem bout the history of Greenland, followed by the collection Asuliivik asuli in 1997. [7] [8] [9] In 2012, she was honored with the Frederik Nielsen Memorial Fund's 10,000-kroner prize. [10]

Her latest work, Piniartorsuit kinguaavi, was also nominated for the Nordic Council prize in 2013, though she lost to the Danish-Norwegian author Kim Leine. [11] [12]

Petersen's poetry is generally humorous in tone and often deals with everyday life in Greenland. [13] [9] She writes in both Greenlandic and Danish, translating her own work. [4]

She is also a politician, having previously sat on the Nuuk Municipal Council. [5]

Selected works

Poetry

Translations

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  2. ↑ "Mariane Petersen (b. 1937)". Danske Litteraturpriser (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. ↑ Female voices of the North: an anthology. Olsen, Inger M., Rossel, Sven Hakon., Nedoma, Robert. Wien: Edition Praesens. 2002. ISBN   3-7069-0154-4. OCLC   50694674.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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  5. 1 2 Thisted, Kirsten. "Petersen, Mariane". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  6. ↑ "Piniartorsuit kinguaavi/ Storfangernes efterkommere". Milik Publishing. 2010. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  7. ↑ "Nordic Council Literature Prize". Nordic Co-operation. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  8. ↑ Rajala, Britt; Thisted, Kirsten (2012-02-05). "The Indigenous Peoples of Northern Europe". Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  9. 1 2 Thisted, Kirsten (2016). "Grönländische Literatur" (PDF). Skandinavische Literaturgeschichte.
  10. ↑ Broberg, Hanne (2012-09-22). "Pris til Mariane Petersen". Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  11. ↑ Duran Duus, Søren (2012-11-30). "Mariane Petersen i spil til stor litteraturpris". Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  12. ↑ Duran Duus, Søren (2013-10-30). "Ingen pris til Nuka Godtfredsen". Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  13. ↑ Nuttall, Mark (2005). Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Routledge. ISBN   1136786805.
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