The Most Famous
WRITERS from Greenland
This page contains a list of the greatest Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 3 of which were born in Greenland. This makes Greenland the birth place of the 107th most number of Writers behind Zambia, and Mozambique.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Writers of all time. This list of famous Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875 - 1948)
With an HPI of 61.66, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund is the most famous Writer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq (1875–1948) was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter, and Lutheran pastor. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit," in the indigenous Greenlandic language, an Eskimo–Aleut language. The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland.
2. Naja Marie Aidt (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 48.17, Naja Marie Aidt is the 2nd most famous Writer. Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Naja Marie Aidt (born 24 December 1963) is a Danish-language poet and writer.
3. Niviaq Korneliussen (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 38.37, Niviaq Korneliussen is the 3rd most famous Writer. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Niviaq Korneliussen (born 27 January 1990) is a Greenlandic writer, who writes in Greenlandic and Danish. Her 2014 debut novel, Homo Sapienne, was written in Greenlandic, as well as in a Danish translation by the author, with both published by Milik in 2014. Naasuliardarpi (2020) was her follow-up a few years later, and earned her the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as writers born between 1875 and 1990. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Naja Marie Aidt, and Niviaq Korneliussen. The most famous deceased writers include Henning Jakob Henrik Lund. As of April 2024, 1 new writers have been added to Pantheon including Niviaq Korneliussen.
