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Joen Danielsen Known as Kvívíks-Jógvan ,. He married and settled in the town of Gjógv.

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Hans Andrias Djurhuus was a Faroese poet and teacher. Hans Andrias Djurhuus was one of the most productive Faroese poets. He is well known for his national poems and for his children's songs, but he also wrote psalms, short stories, plays, fairytales and one novel.

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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 the house where they grew up.

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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 the Faroese Literature Prize for fiction in 1981.

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Carl Jóhan Jensen is a Faroese writer, poet and literary critic. His books have five times been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1991, 1998, 2007, 2008 and 2016. In 1989 and 2006 he received the M. A. Jacobsen's Cultural Prize from Tórshavn City Council

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Poul Frederik Joensen was a Faroese poet and writer.

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Hanus Kamban is a Faroese short story writer, essayist, biographer and poet. He was born Hanus Andreassen, but changed his last name to Kamban in 2000.

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Christian Matras was a Faroese poet and academic. He was the founding professor of the University of the Faroe Islands. He is one of the most important poets in Faroese literature.

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Nólsoyar Páll is a Faroese national hero. He was a seaman, trader, poet, farmer and boat builder who tried to develop direct trade between the Faroes and the rest of Europe and introduced vaccination to the islands. He went missing in the winter of 1808/09 sailing home from England.

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Katrin Ottarsdóttir is a Faroese movie director and poet.

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Jóannes Patursson was a Faroese nationalist leader and poet. He served as a member of the Parliament of Denmark and the Parliament of the Faroe Islands.

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Rói Reynagarð Patursson is a Faroese writer and philosopher. He was also the director of the Folk High School of the Faroes.

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Símun av Skarði was a Faroese poet, politician, and teacher.

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Kristian Osvald Viderø was a Faroese clergyman, poet and Bible translator. In 1985 he won the Faroese Literature Prize for his works.

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Louis Christian Oliver Zachariasen known as Louis Zachariasen was a Faroese writer and politician for the New Self-Government party. He was the first deputy prime minister of the Faroe Islands after the islands received home rule in 1948.