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Krist\\xedn Svava T\\xf3masd\\xf3ttir is a poet and historian in Reykjav\\xedk, Iceland. She has published four books of poetry, the latest one, Hetjus\\xf6gur (2020), being awarded the Icelandic Women\\xb4s Prize for Fiction. Stormvi\\xf0v\\xf6run (2015) 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 the translation, Thors won the American-Scandinavian Foundation\\u2018s Leif and Inger Sj\\xf6berg Award and was longlisted for the PEN America Literary Award for translated poetry. Krist\\xedn Svava was one of the editors of the poetry series Me\\xf0g\\xf6ngulj\\xf3\\xf0 (Take-Away Poems), published from 2012 to 2018, and has translated both poetry and fiction into Icelandic, for example Valerie Solanas\\u2018s feminist manifesto SCUM and Cuban author Virgilio Pi\\xf1era\\u2018s poem La isla en peso. Krist\\xedn
Svava holds an MA degree in history from the University of Iceland and has also written, in books and articles, on cultural history and the history of sexuality, women and gender in Iceland.

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