Northwords

a northern state of mind

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Stockholm Neon

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I have a weakness for Stockholm's old and new neon signs. Here are two, observed on recent strolls. This is a storied theater on Dro...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Matador

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Although "Matador" evokes something other than a wildly popular  mini-series about Denmark's history 1929-1947, the name is t...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Scenes from Copenhagen

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A late spring. The teachers in Denmark have been locked out of the schools for almost two weeks. Construction on 18 new metro st...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

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How strange the spring

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Printed on a window at the airport in Keflavik: a poem by Mattias Johannessen. I was between planes, en route from Seattle to Copenhage...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Lovisa Negga

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It's time for some music on this blog! Lovisa Negga is young French-Sami electropop singer from Linköping, in Sweden. I came across...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Herdswoman

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 This February 6, at 3 p.m. Pacific Lutheran University celebrates Sami National Day with a program that begins with the showing of th...
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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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