Heðin Brú (1901–1987) was the pen name of Hans Jacob Jacobsen, a Faroese novelist and translator. At the age of 14 Brú worked as a fisherman. He spent much of the 1920s studying agriculture in Denmark, and from 1928 he was an agricultural adviser to the Faroese government. His first two novels, Longbrá and Fastatokur, dramatize the changing face of Faroese life as subsistence agriculture gave way to the fishing industry

He is considered the most important Faroese writer of his generation and is known for his fresh and ironic style.

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