Nationality Faroese Parents Jakup Dahl Role Author | Name Regin Dahl Occupation poetcomposer Albums Sjomansrimur, Barnarimur | |
Nominations Nordic Council's Literature Prize Similar People Steinbjorn B Jacobsen, Petur Alberg, Toroddur Poulsen, Brandur Enni, Kristian Blak | ||
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Regin Dahl (5 November 1918 in Tórshavn – 29 March 2007 in Copenhagen) was a Faroese author and composer.
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Biography
Dahl came from a literary family; his father being the translator and provost Jákup Dahl. His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than that of many previous Faroese poets.
His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen, and Dahl himself was noted as a composer. In youth he did not know how to transcribe his compositions so would work on them in his head before performing them at cultural events. As a composer he wrote musical settings for 34 Erik Axel Karlfeldt poems and created around 450 compositions in all.
In the mid 1990s, Marianne Clausen made musical transcriptions of his many compositions, and published them as Atlantsløg and Atlantsløg II under his name.
Recognition
Dahl was honoured in 1998 with the Faroese Cultural Prize. He was the first person to receive this award. It has been given to a Faroese artist (writer, musician, painter etc.) almost every year since 1998.