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.[5][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.[7]
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]
See also
References
- ^ "Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir". skald.is (in Icelandic). Skáldaskinna ehf. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Ásgeir Ingvarsson (25 June 2018). "Útgáfa með listræna sýn". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). p. 26. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ "Ójafnrétti í heimi hugmynda". RÚV (in Icelandic). 21 July 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ Magnús Guðmundsson (5 October 2016). "Ég ætla að skapa nýja gullöld íslenskra bókmennta". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). p. 44. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
- ^ a b Petzold, Eli (September 10, 2018). "Partus Gives Birth Abroad: The Icelandic Publisher Goes International". The Reykjavik Grapevine.
- ^ Guðmundsson, Magnús (October 5, 2016). "Við ætlum að skapa nýja gullöld íslenskra bókmennta". Visir (in Icelandic).
- ^ a b "Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir". Digital Writers' Festival. February 2015. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ Kristín Ómarsdóttir, 1962- (2018). Waitress in fall : poems. Partus Press & Carcanet Press. ISBN 978-1-78410-682-9. OCLC 1045585791.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Noel-Tod, Jeremy. "Best poetry books of 2018". Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ Wood, Heloise (1 December 2021). "Harvill Secker snares Ómarsdóttir's dystopian novel". The Bookseller. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ "Grant recipients 2021". PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
External links
- Official website
- Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir reads The Sugar of Things at Vimeo.com (in Icelandic with English subtitles)
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