Virtuelt bókaprát við Randi Ward og Kim Simonsen

26.februar skipaði Scandinavia House í New York fyri virtuellum bókapráti við tey bæði, yrkjaran Kim Simonsen og týðaran, Randi Ward í sambandi við, at síðstnevnda vann Nadia Christensen virðislønina í týðarakapping hjá American Scandinavian Foundation fyri sína týðing av yrkingasavninum Hvat hjálpir einum menniskja at vakna hesumegin hetta áratúsundið hjá Kim Simonsen. Ivan Niclasen er mediator. Virðislønin verður latin eina ferð um árið. Í grundgeving fyri virðislønini verður Randi róst fyri sín málsliga stíl og evni at raka tað einfalda og tilfarsliga í upprunayrkingunum. Prátið kann hoyrast her:

Randi Ward is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from Belleville, West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and has twice won the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today and also been featured on Folk Radio UK, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. Ward’s translations, writing, and photography are used in high school and university classrooms throughout the United States and abroad. She is a recipient of Shepherd University’s Appalachian Photography Award, and Cornell University Library established the Randi Ward Collection in its Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in 2015. For more information, visit  https://randiward.com/

Kim Simonsen is a Faroese writer from the village of Strendur on Eysturoy. He completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Roskilde and has authored seven books as well as numerous essays and academic articles. He is the founder and managing editor of Forlagið Eksil, a Faroese press that has published over 20 titles. In 2014, Simonsen won the M.A. Jacobsen Literature Award for his poetry collection Hvat hjálpir einum menniskja at vakna ein morgun hesumegin hetta áratúsundið (What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium, 2013). Simonsen has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and Stanford University, an associate professor at The University of Bergen, and is now a member of The University of Amsterdam’s faculty. He also currently teaches creative writing courses at The University of the Faroe Islands and recently curated the Faroese art and literary festival, Always Coming Home.