Niviaq Korneliussen | |
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 Niviaq Korneliussen (2016) | |
| Born | 27 January 1990 Nanortalik, Greenland |
| Language | Greenlandic, Danish |
Niviaq Korneliussen (born 27 January 1990) is a Greenlandic writer, who writes in Greenlandic and Danish. Her 2014 debut novel, HOMO sapienne was written and published in Greenlandic, as well as in a Danish translation by the author.
Korneliussen was born in Nanortalik, Greenland. [1] She studied social sciences at the University of Greenland and then psychology at the University of Aarhus, but ended up dropping out of both programs as her writing career launched. [2]
In 2012 she took part in the Allatta! writing project, which encourages young Greenlanders to write literature that reflects their lives. Korneliussen's short story, “San Francisco," was one of the 10 Allatta! works published in Greenlandic and Danish in the project's 2013 anthology. [3]
Her 2014 debut novel Homo Sapienne focuses on the lives of five young adults in Nuuk. It was noted for both its use of modern storytelling techniques and for its portrayal of LGBTQ+ people in Greenlandic society. [4] As a lesbian, Korneliussen said it was important for her to write about gay life in Greenland because she had never encountered anything about homosexuality in Greenlandic literature. [5]
HOMO sapienne was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Politiken Literature Award in 2015 and has subsequently been published in English, French, [6] German, Swedish, Norwegian and Romanian. [7]
In 2020, she published Naasuliardarpi in Greenlandic and a Danish translation, Blomsterdalen, (English: Flower Valley), which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2021. [8] In 2022, Greenlandic Culture Minister Peter P. Olsen presented Korneliussen a cultural award for her writing. [9]
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