Northwords

a northern state of mind

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Christian Jungersen's The Exception

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I’ve just finished the Danish novel Undtagelsen – in English, The Exception , by Christian Jungersen. I bought it in April in the Copenha...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Danish Windpower

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Friday, April 15, 2011

Frederiksberg

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Today I was working "at home" in Vesterbro and went out for a walk mid-day with my camera to enjoy the sunshine.I had been plann...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Moler cliffs of Fur

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Raining steadily in Copenhagen. I’m staying at a friend’s flat while he’s away, high up in  a converted apartment in Vesterbro. Even though ...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Sunday in Copenhagen

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I've been working hard the last couple of days in the National Archives here in Copenhagen, reading through Emilie Demant Hatt's let...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Encouragement from the Dalai Lama at the Skive train station

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You know how it goes. You get to the train station in a foreign country and the print-out you have of a schedule turns out to be wrong. Inst...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Airports

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Back in Denmark on a pale spring day in Aarhus and heading over to the Limfjord for several days on the island of Fur. One of the problems, ...
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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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