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Faroese writer, author and journalist
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Sverri Patursson featured on a Faroese postage stamp (1984)

Sverri Patursson (1871–1960) was a Faroese writer, author, and journalist. He was also a translator, ornithologist and environmentalist.

Patursson was born in the village of Kirkjubøur on Streymoy, Faroe Islands. He attended Vallekilde Folk High School in Zealand in Denmark. Patursson worked as a journalist and his articles frequently featured Faroese wildlife with birds a principal focus. He was devoted to make the Faroe Islands known, and his actions included writing tourist articles as a freelance journalist for the Scandinavian press. Patursson was also a translator and literary writer, and an early author who wrote in Faroese. Patursson was the brother of Súsanna Helena Patursson, a famous Faroese actress and writer in her own right, and Jóannes Patursson, who led the Faroese nationalist movement.

Bibliography

Own work

  • Dagdvølja, 1901
  • Nøkur orð um hin føroyska dansin, 1908
  • Fra Færøernes næringsveie i tekst og billeder, Kria. 1918
  • Móti loysing (political articles), 1925
  • Landaskipan og figgjarlig viðurskiftur i fristatinum Føroyar (political articles), 1928
  • Fuglar og folk (noveller og essays), 1935 (2nd edition 1968)
  • Fuglar og fólk. Kirkjubøur: Øssur Patursson, 1968 (176 pages)
  • Fram við Sugguni : søgur, greinir, røður og yrkingar. (short stories, articles, speeches and poems, published after his death). Tórshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1971 (172 pages)
  • Fuglaframi: 1898-1902. Tórshavn: Offset-prent, Emil Thomsen, 1972 (408 pages)
  • Fra Færøernes næringsveie i tekst og billeder : med historisk oversigt. Tórshavn: Sjóvinnubankin, 1982 (76 pages)
  • Ábal og aðrar søgur Tórshavn: Føroya skúlabókagrunnur, (Ábal and other short stories) 2nd edition 2004 (45 pages, school book)

Translations

  • Robinson Kruso - Daniel Defoe (translated into Faroese by Sverre Patursson), 1914 (2nd edition 1968)

References

  1. "Sverri Patursson (1871-1960)". snar.fo. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. "Sverre Patursson". Faroe Post. 6 January 2006. Archived from the original on 28 February 2006. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  3. "Jóannes Patursson". MyHeritage. MyHeritage. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  4. Sverre Patursson Denstoredanske.dk
  5. Snar.fo Ábal og aðrar søgur

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