page_title: Faroese Cultural Prize
section_title: Heiðursgáva landsins – Faroese Award of Honour
hierarchical_section_title: Faroese Cultural Prize / Awarded cultural persons / Heiðursgáva landsins – Faroese Award of Honour
caption_attribution_description: Føroyskt: Árni Dahl er ein føroyskur bókmentafrøðingur og rithøvundur. Hann varð heiðraður við Heiðursgávu landsins 2013 hin 15. januar 2014 í Stóra Pakkhúsi í Vági. Bjørn Kalsø, landsstýrismaður, handaði virðislønina. Virðislønin var á 75.000 krónur. English: Árni Dahl is a Faroese writer. He was awarded the Faroese Award of Honour 2013 which is 75 000 DKK. Bjørn Kalsø, Minister of Culture handed the award in Stóra Pakkhús in Vágur on 15 January 2014.
context_page_description: Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins has been awarded by the Faroese government to Faroese writers, musicians, artists etc. since 1998. In 2004 no award was given. From 1998 to 2000 only one award was given, but in 2001 they established an additional award, half as big as the original.
  The prize is awarded by a board appointed by the Ministry of Culture. The board also gives additional special awards of 50.000 Danish Koroner and/or so-called sømdargávur or Sømdargáva landsins, given as a lifelong annual grant of DKK 20 000. The main award, Mentanarvirðisløn landsins, is DKK 150.000, and the heiðursgáva landsins is DKK 75.000 koroner.
  In 2011 the awards were announced in December, with the next awards announced on 15 January 2013, which was William Heinesen's birthday. This was also the first time that the event was held in Klaksvík, being announced in Spaniastova and broadcast live on national Faroese radio. The following year the prizes were handed out on 15 January in Stóra Pakkhús in Vágur.
context_section_description: Heiðursgáva landsins is DKK 75.000. These persons and cultural institutions have received the award since 2001:
  2019 – Simme Arge Jacobsen
  2018 – Astrid Andreasen
  2017 – Frits Johannesen
  2016 – Steinprent
  2015 – Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen, architect
  2014 –  Tey av Kamarinum
  2013 – Árni Dahl, writer, editor
  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
  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.)
  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.
  2005 – Emil Juul Thomsen
  2004 – No award given
  2003 – Ólavur Hátún
  2002 – Axel Tórgarð
  2001 – Fuglafjarðar Sjónleikarafelag
caption: Árni Dahl received the Faroese Award of Honour 2013. Bjørn Kalsø cultural minister handed over the award.
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