Northwords

a northern state of mind

Saturday, January 30, 2010

How the Fisher Came Back Home

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The Antioch Review has just published my essay about the reintroduction of the fisher to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. The fish...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

What We Want, an essay about art and life

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The most recent issue of Feminist Studies is carrying an art essay, "What We Want," about two Danish women painters, Emilie Mundt...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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Friday, August 15, 2008

With the Lapps in the High Mountains

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The wonderful environmental literary magazine Orion has just published two excerpts from my translation from the Danish of Emilie Demant Hat...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Book Reviews of Cold Subjects

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Here is a selection of my reviews for the Seattle Times about ice and snow, reindeer, and Northern places: "The Future of Ice"...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Karl Tirén, Joik Collector

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I was in Stockholm recently and had the opportunity to visit the collections of the Music Museum with the director Hans Riben, who kindly s...
Friday, January 18, 2008

What is joiking or yoiking? And how can you hear it?

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Ursula Länsman, member of the Sámi Band Angelit, describes it very well. http://www.folkworld.de/9/e/sami.html "A yoik is not merely a...
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Barbara Sjoholm
I've traveled in and written about the Nordic countries and Sápmi for many years, and have published numerous books about the North, including translations, travel narratives, and cultural history. Most recently I translated By the Fire, a collection of Sámi folktales, many told by women, collected and illustrated by the Danish ethnographer and artist, Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958). The University of Minnesota Press will publish a new book in February, 2023, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture, with stories of Sámi objects and their makers over the centuries. www.barbarasjoholm.com has more about all my books. I also write mysteries under the name Barbara Wilson. See www.barbarawilsonmysteries for more about them.
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