Lögberg-Heimskringla - 26.11.1999, Qupperneq 2

2 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Friday 26 November 1999
Björk the last Bröste-Prize winner
Photo: Bragi Þór Jósefsson
Left to right: Peter Bröste, manager of P. Bröste aJs, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, and President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir, musi-
cian, was this year’s recipient of
the Bröste Optimist Awards.
The President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar
Grímsson handed out the awards at the
Kópavogur Music House; he is the
patron of the awards.
This was the nineteenth and last
time the Bröste awards, worth $ 11,000,
will be given out. Peter Bröste estab-
lished the awards in 1981 on behalf of
outstanding Icelandic artists.
On this occasion Björk
Guðmundsdóttir said that she was
deeply touched by- this recognition,
which had come as a surprise. She said
she was always surprised by the interest
people express in her work.
Worked with courage
igdís Finnbogadóttir, one of the
Bröste Optimist Awards judges,
expanded on the judges’ choice and
said that no artist received an acknowl-
edgement by his/her contemporaries
without working courageously on their
art, with strong faith in its power and
might. She said that Björk had shown
that she has had that courage since she
first stepped on stage at an early age, as
well as a unique musical talent. She
said that Björk had carved her own path
throughout her career and created her
own style. She had with enchanting
music, optimism, and energy reached
young and old alike.
The Dane Peter Bröste has done
business with Icelanders for over thirty
ears. He is presently preparing for
retirement and plans to sell his compa-
ny, or at least part of it. As a result the
awards which have been given out in
his name every year since 1981, will no
longer be given out.
In recognition of this closing event,
a few artists who themselves have
received the awards in recent years
appeared to honoured Peter Bröste with
a special festive program.
At a special ceremony at
Bessastaðir, the President of Iceland
honoured Mr. Bröste with the Order of
the Falcon, Iceland’s most prestigious
medal.
Obituary
Inghildur Osk
Goodman
<6Inga”
Inga was bom on August 6, 1901 in
Duxby, Minnesota. Her birth mother
was Sarah Vik, a recent immigrant from
Iceland at the time of lnga’s birth. Inga
was adopted as an infant by Bjami
Amason and Ingebjorg Bjomsdottir, an
Icelandic couple living in Manitoba.
The Amason family had suífered the
loss of their two young daughters, Inge
and Hildur, and combined the names of
those children to name their new daugh-
ter Inghildur, afifectionately known as
“Inga.” Inga was baptized January 19,
1902 in West Selkirk, Manitoba,
Canada. Her sister Helga Isfeld lives in
Manitoba. .
On December 9, 1924 Inga married
Kristjan Franklin Goodman in Selkirk,
Manitoba. They moved to California
and up and down the west coast during
the Great Depression years. Their son
Franklin was bom in Portland, Oregon
in 1928. Eventually they settled in
Seattle. Her husband died in 1957.
Inga worked for the Army Signal
Corp, overseeing supplies. She also
worked at an Army Post in Seattle, and
for the Seattle housing Authority as a
clerk typist for more than twenty-five
years. Inga was a member of Eining,
the Icelandic Ladies Aid, for many
years and a member of Calvary
Lutheran Church since the 1940s.
In 1960 Inga read the obituary of
John Vik, also of Seattle, and discov-
ered after some investigation that he
was actually her half brother. That put
her in touch with John’s (and her) sister
Sophie Larson of Astoria, Oregon, now
deceased. They were thankful to find
each other alter all those years.
Sophie’s daughter, anf lnga’s niece,
Sandra Kalander is here today from
Astoria.
We rest Inga’s memory and spirit
with love and tmst in God’s care, and in
sure and certain hope of the resurrection
through Jesus Christ.
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