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Andreas William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a poet, writer, composer and painter from the Faroe Islands. [1][2] His writing. The Faroese capital Tórshavn is always the centre of Heinesen's writing and he is famous for having once called Tórshavn "The Navel of the World".
The Lost Musicians ( Danish: De fortabte spillemænd) is the fourth novel by William Heinesen. It was published in Danish in 1950. [ 1] The novel was twice translated into English, first by Erik Friis and published by the Twayne Publishers in 1971. [ 2]
Mar 12, 1991 · William Heinesen is the best-known writer that the Faroe Islands have produced. He wrote mainly in Danish, but all of his books, which are set in the Faroe Islands, have been translated into his native Faroese.
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Apr 21, 2017 · Relatively speaking, William Heinesen is not known in this country, but he is one of the truly great Scandinavian novelist of the 20th Century. His novel, The Lost Musicians, takes place in the tiny island country of the Faroes at the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Lost Musicians by William Heinesen is a look back into the early years of the twentieth century when the alcohol prohibition movement that was sweeping the world made its way to the distant Faroe Islands. It's not only alcohol that winds up being banned, but also music and joie de vivre.
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Heinesen is widely tought to be one of the most important writers in 20th Century Scandinavian literature and is translated into 25 languages. The house itself stood complete in 1932 and housed the award winning writer and his family.
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Jan 1, 2001 · “The Tower at the End of the World” is a highly poetic novel on memory and nostalgia. The author, William Heinesen, is from the Faroe Islands but wrote in Danish rather than his native Faroese, which strangely once led him to reject consideration for the Nobel Prize.
