Niviaq Korneliussen

Korneliussen was born in Nanortalik, Greenland.^[1] She studied social sciences at the University of Greenland and then psychology at the University of Aarhus, but ended up dropping out of both programs as her writing career launched.^[2]

In 2012 she took part in the Allatta! writing project, which encourages young Greenlanders to write literature that reflects their lives.^[3] Korneliussen's short story "San Francisco" was one of the 10 Allatta! works published in Greenlandic and Danish in the project's 2013 anthology.^[3]

Her 2014 debut novel Homo Sapienne focuses on the lives of five young adults in Nuuk.^[4] It was noted for both its use of modern storytelling techniques and for its portrayal of LGBTQ+ people in Greenlandic society.^[5] As a lesbian, Korneliussen said it was important for her to write about gay life in Greenland because she had never encountered anything about homosexuality in Greenlandic literature.^[6]

Homo Sapienne was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Politiken Literature Award in 2015 and has subsequently been published in English, French,^[4] German, Swedish, Norwegian, Romanian^[7] and Polish.^[8]

In 2020, she published Naasuliardarpi in Greenlandic and a Danish translation, Blomsterdalen (Flower Valley), which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2021.^[9] In 2022, Greenlandic Culture Minister Peter P. Olsen [dk] presented Korneliussen a cultural award for her writing.^[10]

• "San Francisco"
  • published in Inuusuttut — nunatsinni nunarsiarmilu (2013). ISBN 978-87-92790-18-7
  • published in Ung i Grønland — ung i verden (2015). ISBN 978-87-92790-43-9
• HOMO sapienne (2014). ISBN 978-87-92790-44-6
  • translated into Danish by the author as HOMO sapienne (2014). ISBN 978-87-92790-65-1
  • translated into German by Giannina Spinty-Mossin and Katja Langmaier as Nuuk #ohne Filter (2016) ISBN 978-3-902902-47-4
  • translated into English (Great Britain) by Anna Halager as Crimson (2018). ISBN 978-0-349-01056-4
  • translated into French by Inès Jorgensen as Homo sapienne (2018). ISBN 978-2-924519-58-5
  • translated into Icelandic by Heiðrún Ólafsdóttir as HOMO sapína (2018). ISBN 978-9935-465-92-4
  • translated into Swedish by Jonas Rasmussen as Homo Sapienne (2018). ISBN 978-91-7343-752-3
  • translated into English (USA) by Anna Halager as Last night in Nuuk (2019). ISBN 978-0-8021-4674-8
  • translated into Norwegian by Kim Leine as HOMO sapienne (2019). ISBN 978-82-02-57245-7
  • translated into Romanian by Simina Răchițeanu as HOMO sapienne (2020). ISBN 978-973-47-3296-8
  • translated into Polish by Agata Lubowicka as HOMO sapienne (2021). ISBN 978-83-953485-6-3
  • translated into Italian by Francesca Turri as Una notte a Nuuk (2025). ISBN 978-88-7091-700-0
• Naasuliardarpi (2020). ISBN 978-87-93941-15-1
  • translated into Danish by the author as Blomsterdalen (2020). ISBN 978-87-02-27838-5
  • translated into Norwegian by Kyrre Andreassen as Blomsterdalen (2021). ISBN 978-82-05548091
  • translated into Faroese by Vagnur Streymoy as Blómudalurin (2022). ISBN 978-99972-1-462-1
  • translated into Spanish by Blanca Ortiz Ostalé as El Valle de las Flores (2022). ISBN 978-8410249363
  • translated into Polish by Agata Lubowicka as Dolina Kwiatów (2022). ISBN 978-83-8191-546-5
  • translated into Italian by Francesca Turri as La valle dei fiori (2023). ISBN 978-88-7091-670-6
  • translated into Swedish by Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi as Blomsterdalen (2023). ISBN 9789113123172
  • translated into Icelandic by Heiðrún Ólafsdóttir as Blómadalur (2023). ISBN 9789935521538
  • translated into German by Franziska Hüther as Das Tal der Blumen (2023). ISBN 978-3-442-76239-2
  • translated into French by Inès Jorgensen as La vallée des fleurs (2023). ISBN 978-2-264-08113-1
  • translated into North Saami by Kari Utsi as Lieđđevággi (2024). ISBN 9788232905829
  • translated into Catalan by Maria Rosich as La vall de les Flors (2025). ISBN 978-84-19332-89-9