Author(s)
Publishing Date
2016
Document Language(s)
French

French translation of the Greenlandic novel Singnagtugaq

Turned towards the future of Greenland, in a "dream" that opens both to the concerns of its citizens and to the utopia of an egalitarian society, this first novel of Greenlandic literature - Singagtugaq, first published in Copenhagen in 1914, then translated into Danish by the famous Knut Rasmussen the following year - allows today's reader to turn his gaze on the Inuit world and finally discover a voice "from the inside", which refocuses the representation on this huge Arctic island. This progressive novel claims for the Greenlanders knowledge, education, recognition. According to Karen Langgård, the author wrote this novel with a political objective, in particular towards the Danes who colonized the country: "His idea of the role of the Danes was that the Greenlanders had to collaborate with the most progressive Danes, capable of respecting them."

With an introduction by Karen Langgård, professor at the University of Greenland.

Translated from Danish by Inès Jorgensen with a linguistic validation from the original Greenlandic text by Jean-Michel Huctin.


Mathias Storch, Le rêve d'un Groenlandais, Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, “Jardin de givre” series, 2016, 162 p. With an introduction by Karen Langgård.

ISBN 978-2-7605-4420-8