Английская Википедия:Homo Sapienne
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Homo Sapienne, also known as HOMO sapienne or Last Night in Nuuk or Crimson, is a Greenlandic novel by Niviaq Korneliussen, published in 2014 in the Greenlandic language. After winning a short story competition, Korneliussen was financially supported to write the novel over three months, but she wrote it in only one. It is about the lives of several LGBT characters in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. While reviewers commended its subject matter, the novel had issues with pacing and tone; it received a mixed critical reception.
Background
Niviaq Korneliussen is a Greenlandic writer who grew up in Nanortalik, a village in the south of the island.Шаблон:Sfn She entered a short story competition held in Greenland for young writers in 2012, submitting a piece called "San Francisco".Шаблон:Sfn She won the competition, and was then asked for a novel by the publisher.Шаблон:Sfn She received financial support for three months from the Greenlandic government to write the novel, but she wrote it all in only the final month.Шаблон:Sfn Homo Sapienne (stylized as HOMO sapienne)Шаблон:Sfn was published in 2014 in the Greenlandic language, with one chapter in English.Шаблон:Sfnm It was translated into Danish by Korneliussen, and separately into English (as Crimson and Last Night in Nuuk) and German.Шаблон:Sfnm
While most Greenlandic literature is traditionally focused on its geography and its modest living conditions, Korneliussen's novel is instead written in a stream of consciousness, occupied with the interior lives of its characters.Шаблон:Sfn The culture of the island is rather inflexible, resulting in Korneliussen drawing upon pop culture in the English language rather than in Greenlandic.Шаблон:Sfn The book documents LGBT life in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.Шаблон:Sfn Characters in the novel include Arnaq, Fia, Inuk, Ivik, and Sara,Шаблон:Sfn all of whom are of undisclosed ages but perhaps in their twenties.Шаблон:Sfn Fia was also the name of a character in "San Francisco".Шаблон:Sfn Since Nuuk is a small town of some 17,000 people without an established gay subculture, the novel is set mostly in bars and in homes.Шаблон:Sfn
Events for the novel included a class reading in celebration of a theme day for the North Atlantic region, where pizza was served and songs in regional languages were sung.Шаблон:Sfn
Reception
Homo Sapienne had a mixed reception. While its themes of LGBT identity were accepted by its Greenlandic audience, the details of familial abuse were not.Шаблон:Sfn The novel was criticised as immature and Korneliussen as lacking experience by Katharine Coldiron of the Los Angeles Review of Books, since it contains unnecessary material (such as a dramatis personae—a list of characters), the characters have similar voices, shallowness, and details of pop culture.Шаблон:Sfn Hannah Jane Parkinson of The Guardian said the book was clumsy, and there were major discontinuities throughout, some within the space of a single "fag break".Шаблон:Sfn The tone was also criticised by a reviewer for the Women's Review of Books as too colloquial.Шаблон:Sfn Despite the criticism they levied, Coldiron and Parkinson both found positive attributes in the novel.Шаблон:Sfnm Coldiron said some of the novel had thoughtful narration, and "subtly" portrayed Greenlandic life "without much politicizing",Шаблон:Sfn while Parkinson said some of the prose was lyrically written.Шаблон:Sfn
Scholar Rozemarijn Vervoort wrote that Korneliussen's novel made her a "pioneer for a new generation of young Greenlandic authors".Шаблон:Sfn Similarly, Coldiron suggested that Western literary presses take into account more writers like Korneliussen, who write in underrepresented regions.Шаблон:Sfn
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