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Greenland (Denmark)

Greenland (Denmark) All works

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  • TaleTales and Traditions of the EskimoKaladlit OkalluktualliaitHinrich Rink and Aron of Kangeq · 1859Greenlandic legends written by Greenlanders, on the first printing press of the island.Literature
  • PoetryNunarput utoqqarsuanngoravitHenrik Lund · 1912not translated into EnglishThe national anthem of Greenland, a greeting to the old country and a call for its people to awaken.Literature
  • NovelA Greenlander's DreamSingnagtugaqMathias Storch · 1914A gifted boy leaves his village for the seminary, in colonial Greenland at the beginning of the century.Literature
  • TaleMyter og Sagn fra GrønlandKnud Rasmussen · 1921not translated into EnglishThe great narratives of the Inuit tradition of Greenland, collected from storytellers and rendered into Danish.Literature
  • NovelUkiut 300-nngorneratAugo Lynge · 1931not translated into EnglishA novel from 1931 that imagines the Greenland of 2021, modern, prosperous and bilingual.Literature
  • NovelTuumarsiFrederik Nielsen · 1934A family driven out by hunger, in the Greenland of the 1850s, between the old world and modernisation.Literature
  • NovelErsinngitsup piumasaaHans Lynge · 1938not translated into EnglishTwo brothers confront the murder of their father, in the Greenland of Inuit tradition.Literature
  • NovelNiuertorutsip paniaPavia Petersen · 1944not translated into EnglishA mixed-race heroine, caught between two peoples, in a Greenlandic trading post around 1900.Literature
  • NovelTaseralikOtto Rosing · 1955not translated into EnglishA woman who wants to be baptised, at the great summer gathering of a Greenland fjord, around 1850.Literature
  • NovelQooqaOle Brandt · 1971not translated into EnglishA hunter of ancient Greenland, who breaks with the law of retaliation, opens a family saga.Literature
  • NovelBussimi naapinneqMâliâraq Vebæk · 1981not translated into EnglishA Greenlandic woman follows to Denmark the worker who came for a summer: the first novel signed by a Greenlandic woman.Literature
  • NovelUmiarsuup tikinngilaattaaniHans Anthon Lynge · 1982not translated into EnglishA small Greenlandic town awaits the supply ship, while a Dane keeps watch, motionless.Literature
  • NovelTarrarsuumi tarraqOle Korneliussen · 1999not translated into EnglishA day in Copenhagen, alongside a lonely man who judges the lives of others without pity.Literature