Sigri Mitra Gaïni

Sigri Mitra Gaïni (Persian: سیگری میترا قائنی; born 1975 in Oslo, Norway) is a Faroese poet, actress and school teacher.

In 2004 she won the Faroese Literature Prize in the category Fiction for her poem collection "2002 nætur" ("2002 Nights").

[5] 2004 - won the Faroese Literature Prize in the category fiction[10] Sigri Gaïni grew up in Norway and in the Faroe Islands.

She was the daughter of Símun av Skarði, who is most famous for writing the poem which now is the national hymn Tú alfagra land mítt (1906).

She also studied Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, but finished by training as a school teacher, and now works in that capacity in Tórshavn.