Name: Kim Simonsen
Born: 1970
Selected work: Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatni minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum.
Awards and nominations: 
Won the National Literary Award (M.A.Jacobsen) for poetry in 2014. 

Kim Simonsen is a Faroese writer from the village of Strendur on Eysturoy. He completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Roskilde and has authored seven books as well as numerous essays and academic articles. He is the founder and managing editor of Forlagið Eksil, a Faroese press that has published over 20 titles. In 2014, Simonsen won the M.A. Jacobsen Literature Award for his poetry collection “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, 2013). Simonsen has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and Stanford University, an associate professor at The University of Bergen, and is now a member of The University of Amsterdam’s faculty. He also currently teaches creative writing courses at The University of the Faroe Islands and curated the Faroese art and literary festival, Always Coming Home. His latest poetry collection Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatni minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum 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.

Works
2023 Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatnið minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum. Poetry collection (Verksmiðjan)
2015 Desemburmorgun. Poetry collection (Mentanargrunnur Studentafelagsins)
2013 Hvat hjálpir einum menniskja at vakna hesumegin hetta áratúsind. Poetry Collection (Mentanargrunnur Studentafelagsins)
2012 Literature, imagining and memory in the formation of a nation. PhD Dissertation
2006 Náðisólin.
2005 Kodakmyndir úr sjeytiárunum. Poetry collection (Mentanargrunnur Studentafelagsins
2003 Dreymar um opin vindeygu. Academic essays (Mentanargrunnur Studentafelagsins)

Translations
2024 What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium (coming soon on Deep Vellum, USA)
2023 Hvad hjælper det et menneske at vågne en morgen på denne side af dette årtusind. (Vild Maskine, Denmark)
2022 What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium (PNV Publishing, Macedonia)