Kim Simonsen is nominated for the 2024 Nordic Council Literature Prize

FarLit congratulates Kim Simonsen on the nomination for the 2024 Nordic Council Literature Prize!

The literature prize is awarded every year to a work written in a Nordic language of particularly high literary and artistic quality, and the prize is regarded as one of the most prestigious awards in the Nordic region.

"With this work, he’s managed to create a work and a language about grief and sorrowful father-son relationships that transcend the familial and the private, and never become either bitter or sentimental. It’s a strong eco-poetic work that allows the reader to accompany the poet in his quietly existential journey. Kim Simonsen’s Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatni minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum is a consistent, wise, poetic, and impressively good poetry collection."

Read the nomination rationale in full here: https://www.norden.org/en/nominee/kim-simonsen