Jens Pauli Heinesen

Jens Pauli Heinesen was a Faroese writer. He received the Faroese Literature Prize four times and the Faroese Cultural Prize once. From 1968 to 1975, Heinesen was president of the Association of Writers of the Faroe Islands. He wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, a children's book, and translated books from foreign languages into Faroese.