Niviaq Korneliussen becomes the first Greenlandic author to win a top Nordic book prize

She won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for "Naasuliardarpi," her novel about suicide among young people in Greenland.

By Kevin McGwin November 3, 2021
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She has been called Greenland’s unlikely literary star, but today, Niviaq Korneliussen can call herself that country’s first winner of the Nordic region’s most important literary award.

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