Kristn Svava Tmasdttir is a poet and historian in Reykjavk, Iceland. She has published four books of poetry: Bltglur (2007), Skrlingjasningin (2011), Stormvivrun (2015) and Hetjusgur (2020), the latest one being awarded the Icelandic Womens Prize for Fiction. Stormvivrun was translated into English by K.B. Thors as Stormwarning and published in a bilingual edition in the United States by Phoneme Media in 2018. For her translation, Thors won the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjberg Award and was longlisted for the PEN America Literary Award for translated poetry. K.B. Thors is the author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books, 2019) and translator of Soledad Marambio's Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017and Kristn Svava Tmasdttir's Stormwarning (Phoneme, 2018), winner of the American Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjberg Prize and nominee for the 2019 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation.
Winner of the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award Long-listed for the PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation “Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir has done the seemingly impossible: taken our contemporary capitalist culture, suffused with moralism as well as not-so-hidden prejudice, glorying in its achievements while squandering its wealth, and submitted it to critique while making us laugh at the whole thing.” —Magdalena Kay, World Literature Today