About the Author

FREDERIK NIELSEN (1905-1991) grew up in a settlement in Greenland. After studying to become a catechist, Nielsen began the first training course for Danish teachers in Greenland in the mid-1930s. Later, he ran Greenland Broadcasting and completed well-regarded translations and important works of fiction and poetry. TORBEN HUTCHINGS is part Danish and based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He gave up a career in chemistry to work as a freelance translator and run a small market stall.