13 20th century Faroese poets

Hans Andrias Djurhuus was a Faroese poet and teacher. Hans Andrias Djurhuus was one of the most productive Faroese poets. He is well known for his national poems and for his children's songs, but he also wrote psalms, short stories, plays, fairytales and one novel.

Jens Hendrik Oliver Djurhuus, called Janus Djurhuus, was the first modern Faroese poet. He and his younger brother Hans Andreas Djurhuus, also a poet, are called the Áarstova brothers after the house where they grew up.

Andreas William Heinesen was a poet, novel writer, short story writer, children's book writer, composer and painter from the Faroe Islands.

Steinbjørn Berghamar Jacobsen was a Faroese poet, teacher and writer. He was known as a children's writer, but his works also included short stories, plays and novels. He was awarded the Faroese Literature Prize for fiction in 1981.

Carl Jóhan Jensen is a Faroese writer, poet and literary critic. His books have five times been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1991, 1998, 2007, 2008 and 2016. In 1989 and 2006 he received the M. A. Jacobsen's Cultural Prize from Tórshavn City Council

Poul Frederik Joensen was a Faroese poet and writer.

Christian Matras was a Faroese poet and academic. He was the founding professor of the University of the Faroe Islands. He is one of the most important poets in Faroese literature.

Sólrún Michelsen, grew up in Argir and is a Faroese writer and poet. She received the Barnamentanarheiðursløn Tórshavnar býráðs in 2002 and the Faroese Literature Prize in 2008. In 2004 she was nominated for the West Nordic Council's Children and Youth Literature Prize for the poem collection Loppugras. In 2015 she was nominated for the Nordic Literature Prize for the novel Hinumegin er mars.

Jóannes Patursson was a Faroese nationalist leader and poet. He served as a member of the Parliament of Denmark and the Parliament of the Faroe Islands.

Rói Reynagarð Patursson is a Faroese writer and philosopher. He was also the director of the Folk High School of the Faroes.

Símun av Skarði was a Faroese poet, politician, and teacher.

Kristian Osvald Viderø was a Faroese clergyman, poet and Bible translator. In 1985 he won the Faroese Literature Prize for his works.

Louis Christian Oliver Zachariasen known as Louis Zachariasen was a Faroese writer and politician for the New Self-Government party. He was the first deputy prime minister of the Faroe Islands after the islands received home rule in 1948.