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Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir
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Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir (born 1989), also known as Vala Thorodds, is an Icelandic poet, publisher, translator and literary curator. Life Valgerður was born in Iceland but raised in upstate New York. She returned to Iceland at the age of 17. She is the founder and director of two independent publishers of poetry and prose - Partus Press, based in the UK, and Partus forlag, based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her first chapbook, the booklet-length poem Það sem áður var skógur (What Once Was Forest), was edited by Sjón and published in the chapbook series Meðgönguljóð in Iceland in 2015. Her edition and translation from the Icelandic of the selected poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, was co-published in the UK in 2018 by Carcanet Press and Partus Press and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of the best poetry books of the year. Thorodd's translation of Ómarsdóttir's novel Swanfolk, which will be published in 2022, was supported by a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. 
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