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Hans Anthon Lynge

Died in 2025

Hans Anthon Lynge was born on 9 July 1945 in Qullissat, in Greenland. A schoolteacher, then writer and translator, he chaired the Greenlandic writers' association from 1980 to 1984 and again from 1987 to 1995. Author of novels, including Seqajuk in 1976 and Allaqqitat in 1997, of a collection of poems, Nunanni avani, and co-author with Jacob Grønlykke of the screenplay of the film Lysets hjerte, he translated many Danish and Nordic authors into Greenlandic. He died in Nuuk on 28 October 2025.

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