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Andreas William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a poet, novel writer, short story writer, children's book writer, composer and painter from the Faroe Islands.
William Heinesen (born Jan. 15, 1900, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Den.—died Mar. 12, 1991, Tórshavn) was a Faroese writer of Danish-language poetry and fiction in which he used his remote North Atlantic homeland as a microcosmic setting for universal social, psychological, and cosmic themes.
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William Heinesen (1900-1991) was born in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands, the son of a Danish mother and Faroese father, and was equally at home in both languages. Although he spent most of his life in the Faroe Islands, he chose to write in Danish as he felt it offered him greater inventive freedom.
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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Mar 14, 1991 · William Heinesen, a novelist and poet whose writing chronicled life on the Faeroe Islands, died on Tuesday in Thorshavn, the capital of the islands, where he was born. He was 91...
Williamshús is located in the capital of Faroe Islands, Tórshavn. It was the primary residence of Faroe Islands greatest writer William Heinesen. When the house was built, it stood by it self, in the periphery of the capital of Tórshavn.
Jan 1, 2001 · 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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