Kim Simonsen: rights sold to Estonia
Kim Simonsen’s 2023 poetry collection Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatni minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum will soon be published in Estonia. It is translated into Estonian by Andry Arro and will be published by Nordur in May.
The English title is The biological composition of a drop of seawater is similar to the blood in my veins. The poetry collection works with the ocean as an element. Thematically the speaker deals with his dead father, who has been a sailor his whole life and the ocean that is eating away the land, which simultaneously is our organic original home.
In four parts the collection dissects everything that we touch and the joy of turning to the world, our skin, mites, viruses, and the whirlwind of bacteria, that is the biological foundation of every living thing.
Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatni minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum has received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2024 Nordic Council Literature Prize. The rights to the poetry collection have also been sold to USA, Hungary and North Macedonia and the poetry collection continues to attract attention from translators all over the world.
