Coming soon in Denmark
Kim Simonsen's collection of “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) is now sold to the publisher Vild Maskine to the Danish market.
Hugin Eide has translated the book. It will be published in May 2023. What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium, was originally published in the Faroe Islands by Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins in 2013.
The following year in 2024, the collection received the National Book Award of the Faroe Islands, M.A. Jacobsen's Award. In its citation, the Faroese awards committee noted the broad geographic, scientific, and contextual impetus of the collection. The structure and scope came up with new materialistic and posthumanist poetics. With Simonsen's poetics, he has worked to revitalize Faroese poetics by rendering them part of the wider world while calling into question the foundations of our ways of knowing and writing.
In 2021 it was publoshed in Macedonia by PNV Publishing, where it also won an award in 2022 (being a part of a series of books) at the Skopje Book Festival. Kim Simonsen's collection is also sold to the famous American publisher Deep Vellum in 2023, to be published in 2024. Excerpts from this collection have been featured at the STANZA Poetry Festival in Scotland, the TRANSPOESIE Festival in Brussels, at Oxford University, Stanford University and the Skopje Poetry Festival in Macedonia. The American-Scandinavian Foundation recently awarded the translator Randi Ward the Nadia Christensen Prize for her translation of this book to English.
Kim Simonsen is a Faroese writer and poet. He completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Roskilde and has authored 7 books as well as numerous essays and academic articles. He is the managing editor of Forlagið Eksil, a Faroese press that has published over 20 titles. He has worked as a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Bergen. He currently teaches creative writing at The University of the Faroe Islands.
