Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir Explained

Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir
Birth Date:1989
Birth Place:Reykjavík, Iceland
Occupation:Poet, publisher, literary curator
Language:Icelandic, English
Nationality:Icelandic
Genre:Poetry

Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir (born 1989),[1] also known as Vala Thorodds, is an Icelandic poet, publisher, translator and literary curator.[2] [3] [4] She is one of the founders and current directors of Meðgönguljóð, a grassroots literary organisation and publisher of poetry based in Iceland. Her work has appeared in print in various anthologies and magazines in Reykjavík, Berlin, Bristol, and Zaragosa. In 2014, Valgerður was nominated on behalf of Iceland to the PEN International New Voices Award.

Personal life

Valgerður was born in Iceland but raised in upstate New York.[5] She returned to Iceland at the age of 17.[6]

Career

Valgerður co-founded and currently serves as a director for two independent publishing companies: Meðgönguljóð (Partus forlag), basked in Reykjavík, Iceland, and Partus Press, based in the United Kingdom.[7]

She wrote for magazines in Spain, the UK, Germany and Iceland, and in 2014, she was Iceland's nomination for the PEN International New Voices Award.

Her first chapbook, the booklet-length poem Það sem áður var skógur (What Once Was Forest), was edited by Sjón and published in the chapbook series Meðgönguljóð in Iceland in 2015. Her edition and translation from the Icelandic of the selected poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, was co-published in the UK in 2018 by Carcanet Press and Partus Press[8] and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of the best poetry books of the year.[9] Thorodd's translation of Ómarsdóttir's novel Swanfolk, which will be published in 2022, was supported by a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant.[10] [11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir . skald.is . Skáldaskinna ehf . 10 January 2022 . Icelandic.
  2. News: Ásgeir Ingvarsson . Útgáfa með listræna sýn . 10 January 2022 . . 25 June 2018 . 26 . Icelandic.
  3. News: Ójafnrétti í heimi hugmynda . 10 January 2022 . . 21 July 2015 . Icelandic.
  4. News: Magnús Guðmundsson . Ég ætla að skapa nýja gullöld íslenskra bókmennta . 10 January 2022 . . 5 October 2016 . 44 . Icelandic.
  5. News: Eli . Petzold . Partus Gives Birth Abroad: The Icelandic Publisher Goes International . The Reykjavik Grapevine. September 10, 2018.
  6. News: Magnús. Guðmundsson . Við ætlum að skapa nýja gullöld íslenskra bókmennta. Visir. October 5, 2016 . Icelandic.
  7. Web site: February 2015. Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir. 2022-01-13. Digital Writers' Festival. en-US.
  8. Book: Kristín Ómarsdóttir, 1962-. Waitress in fall : poems. 2018. Partus Press & Carcanet Press. 978-1-78410-682-9. 1045585791.
  9. News: Noel-Tod . Jeremy . Best poetry books of 2018 . 11 January 2022 . en.
  10. News: Wood . Heloise . Harvill Secker snares Ómarsdóttir's dystopian novel . 11 January 2022 . The Bookseller . 1 December 2021.
  11. Web site: Grant recipients 2021 . PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants . 11 January 2022 . en .