Northwords

a northern state of mind

Saturday, February 25, 2012

"More Than Meets the Eye"-- Johan Turi's Art

Johan Turi, untitled The Norwegian-Sámi scholar Harald Gaski has published a fascinating article, “More than Meets the Eye: The Indig...

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Reading Emilie Demant Hatt in Helsinki in 2002

Queen Christina, by Sebastian Bourdan I first read Emilie Demant Hatt's narrative about her time with the Sami in northern Sweden ...

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Driving a Reindeer Sled for the First Time

I've finished going over my translation of Emilie Demant Hatt's narrative With the Lapps in the High Mountains and am now worki...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Translating Danish

I’m just now surfacing from a long happy period of writing and reading to find myself in 2012. I’ve had good news that the university pre...

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About Me

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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