Herostories - Tomasdottir, Kristin Svava
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"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 one hundred Icelandic midwives, poet-historian Kristâin Svava Tâomasdâottir's found poems illuminate the dangers and valor of birthwork. Forgoing traditional sagas of androcentric conquest, these poems center the adventures of ljâosmµºur, "mothers of light." Tâomasdâottir leverages epic elements-dashing mountain treks, rivers forded on horseback, unyielding compassion-to…mehr

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"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 one hundred Icelandic midwives, poet-historian Kristâin Svava Tâomasdâottir's found poems illuminate the dangers and valor of birthwork. Forgoing traditional sagas of androcentric conquest, these poems center the adventures of ljâosmµºur, "mothers of light." Tâomasdâottir leverages epic elements-dashing mountain treks, rivers forded on horseback, unyielding compassion-to challenge how and whose stories become legend. The follow-up to Tâomasdâottir/Thors's award-winning, PEN-nominated Stormwarning, Herostories documents the professional achievements of the island's first women to work outside the home, precursors to today's midwives, who remain central to contemporary Icelandic health care"--
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Autorenporträt
Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir is a poet and historian in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has published four books of poetry: Blótgælur (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 by Phoneme Media 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, 2017and Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning (Phoneme, 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.