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Pavia Petersen

Died in 1943

Pavia Petersen, son of the poet and composer Jonathan Petersen, was born in 1904. Trained at the seminary, he was chief catechist, sat on the municipal council of Maniitsoq and on the provincial council of South Greenland, and painted views of towns and landscapes in muted colours. A poet of the seasons, he also wrote Ikinngutigiit, in 1934, the first comedy by a Greenlandic author to be printed. He died in 1943.

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