Herostories
$28.00
- Paperback
162 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2023
Summary
Herostories: Iceland’s Midwife Sagas
Herostories reveals tales untold by most history books: the harrowing journeys and vital triumphs of nineteenth- and twentieth-century midwifery in the vast landscape of Iceland.
Composed from the memoirs and biographies of 100 Icelandic midwives, poet-historian Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s found poems illuminate the dangers and valor of birthwork. Forgoing traditional sagas of androcentric conquest, these poems c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646052288 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1646052285 |
| Author: | KB Thors, Kristn Svava Tomasdottr |
| Publisher: | Deep Vellum Publishing |
| Imprint: | Deep Vellum Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 162 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 10g |
| Dimensions: | 177mm x 127mm |
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Critics Review
Winner of the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award
Long-listed for the PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation
“Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir has done the seemingly impossible: taken our contemporary capitalist culture, suffused with moralism as well as not-so-hidden prejudice, glorying in its achievements while squandering its wealth, and submitted it to critique while making us laugh at the whole thing.” —Magdalena Kay, World Literature Today
About The Author
KB Thors
Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir is a poet and historian in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has published four books of poetry: Blóðgluggar (2007), Skrælingjasýningin (2011), Stormviðvörun (2015) and Hetjusögur (2020), the latest one being awarded the Icelandic Women’s Prize for Fiction. Stormviðvörun was translated into English by K.B. Thors as Stormwarning and published in a bilingual edition in the United States in 2018. For her translation, Thors won the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award and was longlisted for the PEN America Literary Award for translated poetry.
K.B. Thors is the author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books, 2019) and translator of Soledad Marambio’s Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)and Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning (2018), winner of the American Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize and nominee for the 2019 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation.
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