Background
Guðrið Helmsdal Nielsen grew up in the Faroe Islands the first 12 years of her life. When she was 12, her family moved to live in Denmark, where her father worked as a captain.
Guðrið Helmsdal Nielsen grew up in the Faroe Islands the first 12 years of her life. When she was 12, her family moved to live in Denmark, where her father worked as a captain.
Guðrið lived in De until she as 26 years old moved back to the Faroe Islands. She began to write poems at a young age, she was 13, and a few years later in 1958 she published her first poems in a Faroese paper for Faroese students in Denmark, called Oyggjaskeggi. In 1961 she published some poems in the Faroese literary magazine Varðin.
Her first collection of poetry Lýtt lot, which was published in 1963, was the first modern collection of poems in Faroese language.
The collection was also the first collection of poems in Faroese which was written by a woman. Her second collection of poems, Morgun í mars, was published in 1971 and is written in two languages: Faroese and Danish.
Guðrið"s parents are Annie Helmsdal and Hans Poulsen. The daughter, Rakel Helmsdal, is also a writer