Hanus Kamban

Who is Hanus Kamban?

Hanus Kamban is a short story writer, essayist, biography writer and poet. He was born Hanus Andreassen, but changed his last name to Kamban in 2000 He grew up in the small island Skúvoy and moved to Tórshavn in 1956. He was president of the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands 1992–94. He writes about the quite sudden modernisation of the Faroese society post World War II. He published his first short story anthology in 1980, he has translated William Shakespeare, Kafka, Graham Greene and other great writers and poets from other countries to Faroese. From 1994 to 1997 he published a three volume biography about one of the most important Faroese poets Janus Djurhuus. It was translated into Danish and published in two volumes in 2001. He was nominated to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the first time in 2003 for his short story anthology Pílagrímar. In 2012 he was nominated for the second time to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, this time for his short story anthology Gullgentan, which was published in Faroese in 2010 and in Danish in 2012. The title means The Golden Girl.