Festival internazionale
di letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

Kim Simonsen Denmark Fær Øer Islands

Friday April 17 - 9.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita  - Emanuele Severino

Poets for Incroci

Kim Simonsen

Juan Ignacio Siles Del Valle (Chile - Bolivia)

Dmitrij Strocev (Belarus)

In collaboration with FarLit, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, I Libri di Mompracem

Kim Simonsen (1970, Fær Øer Islands) is a writer and scholar whose work moves between literature, philosophy, and ecology. He holds a Ph.D. from Denmark and has been affiliated with institutions including the University of Amsterdam, the University of Bergen, Oxford University, Stanford University, and Columbia University. His writing engages with ecocriticism, posthumanist thought, non-anthropocentric perspectives, and speculative realism, often exploring the entanglements of nature, memory, language, and place. He has received several literary awards, including the Faroese Literature Prize and the Atlantic Airways Cultural Award (2025), and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2024. His books have been translated into five languages and published internationally, including in Italy, Hungary, Denmark, North Macedonia, and the United States, with Chinese rights recently acquired. His work has appeared in a range of American journals and anthologies, such as Best Literary Translations 2025, and has been featured by Asymptote and Words Without Borders.

© Kim Simonsen