Awarded cultural persons
Mentanarvirðisløn landsins – Faroese Cultural Prize
The main award, the Mentanarvirðisløn landsins (Faroese Cultural Award), is DDK 150.000. These persons have won the award since it started in 1998:
- 2020 – Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir
- 2019 – Hanus G. Johansen[2]
- 2018 – Bárður Jákupsson[3]
- 2017 – Barbara í Gongini[4]
- 2016 – Rúni Brattaberg[5]
- 2015 – Annika Hoydal[6]
- 2014 – Tórbjørn Olsen[7]
- 2013 – Tróndur Patursson, artist[8]
- 2012 – Tóroddur Poulsen, poet, writer, artist and musician[9]
- 2011 – Jóanes Nielsen, writer and poet[10]
- 2010 – Sunleif Rasmussen, composer[11]
- 2009 – Kári Leivsson (Kári P.), poet and singer/songwriter[12]
- 2008 – Ebba Hentze, writer[13]
- 2006 – Zacharias Heinesen, artist (painter)
- 2005 – Tita Vinther, artist
- 2004 – No award given
- 2003 – Hanus Kamban, short story writer and translator
- 2002 – Gunnar Hoydal, writer
- 2001 – Eyðun Johannessen, actor and theatre director
- 2000 – Ingálvur av Reyni, artist (painter)
- 1999 – Jens Pauli Heinesen, novelist, short story writer and poet
- 1998 – Regin Dahl, poet and composer
Heiðursgáva landsins – Faroese Award of Honour
Heiðursgáva landsins is DKK 75.000. These persons and cultural institutions have received the award since 2001:
- 2019 – Simme Arge Jacobsen[14]
- 2018 – Astrid Andreasen[3]
- 2017 – Frits Johannesen[15]
- 2016 – Steinprent[16]
- 2015 – Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen, architect[17]
- 2014 – Tey av Kamarinum[18]
- 2013 – Árni Dahl, writer, editor[19]
- 2012 – Marianne Clausen
- 2011 – Kristian Blak, Danish/Faroese composer, musician and owner of TUTL record company
- 2010 – Jonhard Mikkelsen, who started Sprotin, which publishes Faroese books. He has written and published several Faroese dictionaries
- 2009 – Laura Joensen, theatre actor[20]
- 2008 – Martin Tórgarð, who got the award for his work with the Faroese chain dance and his gifts as skipari of the Faroese dance. (Skipari means skipper or captain, a title given to the person who leads the dance and starts the singing of every verse.)[21]
- 2007 – No award given
- 2006 – Jógvan Isaksen, crime fiction writer. He is also the head of Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins, which is a Faroese publishing house in Copenhagen.[22]
- 2005 – Emil Juul Thomsen[23]
- 2004 – No award given
- 2003 – Ólavur Hátún
- 2002 – Axel Tórgarð
- 2001 – Fuglafjarðar Sjónleikarafelag
Other Special Awards
The board can give a special award of DKK 50.000 if they think it appropriate. These persons have received the award:
Award to Young artist – (Virðisløn til ungt listafólk)
- 2019 – No award given
- 2018 – Búi Rouch, dancer og choreographer
- 2017 – Konni Kass, singer and songwriter.[24]
- 2016 – Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir, poet[25]
- 2015 – Andrias Høgenni, film director[26]
- 2014 – Mathias Kapnas, musician[27]
- 2013 – Trygvi Danielsen, writer and musician[28]
- 2012 – Silja Strøm – young artist
- 2011 – Sakaris Stórá – young film director (25 years old in 2011)
Málrøktarvirðisløn Landsins – Award for exceptional work on the Faroese Language
- 2010 – Jóhan Hendrik Winther Poulsen, linguist
Serstøk virðisløn – Special Award
This special award is DKK 50.000. These persons have received the award:
- 2019 – The publication house Leirkerið with the brothers Zacharias Zachariasen and Flóvin Tyril[29]
- 2006 – Jón Hilmar Magnússon
- 2001 – Ebba Hentze, children's writer
Sømdargáva landsins
Sømdargáva lansins (Faroese Grant) is DKK 20.000, an annual subsidy for the rest of their lives.
- 2015 - Alexandur Kristiansen
- 2014 - Oddvør Johansen[30]
- 2014 - Katrin Ottarsdóttir
- 2012 – Ebba Hentze
- 2012 – Hanus G. Johansen
- 2012 – Guðrið Poulsen