Name: Hanus Kamban (b. Andreassen)
Born: 1942, Saltangará.
Selected work: Tað lovaða landið
Awards and nominations:
Mentanarvirðisløn M.A. Jacobsens in 1980 (non-fiction) and 1986 (fiction)
National Faroese Cultural Prize in 2004
Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2003 and 2012.
Hanus Kamban is known primarily for his short stories. In some of his stories, played out against an austere, rural backdrop, he deals with religious and sexual repression. In others, he makes use of old Faroese legends or draws on Europe as a setting, alluding to continental art and literature. His style is psychologically sensitive. Both ‘Pílagrímar’ and ‘Gullgentan’ have been nominated for the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize.
Short stories
2022 Tað lovaða landið, Náttsólin
2010 Gullgentan, Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins
2001 Pílagrímar, Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins
1986 Hotel Heyst [as H. Andreassen], Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins
1982 Við tendraðum lyktum [as H. Andreassen]
1980 Dóttir av Proteus [as H. Andreassen]
Poetry
2008 Café Europa (Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins)
Plays
2000 Heystveingir
Literary biographies
2019 Hans Andrias - ein bókmentalig ævisøga. Two volumes, Náttsólin
1994-97 J.H.O. Djurhuus - ein bókmentalig ævisøga. Three volumes, Mentanargrunnur Studentafelagsins.
Literary monographies
2007 Hjarta uttan fylgisneyta. Herman Bang 150 ár. An Essay about the Danish impressionist writer Herman Bang, his life, his works and his influence on especially German literature (Thomas Mann).
1994 Hjalmar Söderberg, Norðurlandahúsið í Føroyum. Deals with the famous Swedish writer, his novels, plays, short stories and religio-historical research.
Translations
2016 The Angry Writing and other stories, short story collection Gullgentan translated into English, Náttsólin
2012 Guldpigen, Torgard
2010 Das Goldene Mädchen – four short stories from the original collection, translated into German by Kirsten Brix, Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins
2003 Pilgrimme. Translated by Kirsten Brix, Fisker
2003 Écrivains des Iles Féroé. Poems and stories by Karen Blixen et al. Featuring Hanus Kamban and his short story À l’abri de tes ailes
2001 J.H.O. Djurhuus - en litterær biografi. Two volumes, Odense Universitetsforlag
1984 Med Edgar Allen Poe i Solhavn [as Hanus Andreassen], Husets forlag
Special editions for Nordiska Novelldagen 2011
2011 Guldlfickan och Mannen med nycklarna : Två noveller av Hanus Kamban, Bokdagar i Dalsland. Translated by Inge Knutsson.