Kim Simonsen is a Faroese writer and researcher from the island of Eysturoy. He is the founder and managing editor of Forlagið Eksil, a Faroese press that has published over twenty titles. In 2014, Simonsen won the M.A. Jacobsen Literature Award for his poetry collection Hvat hjálpir einum menniskja at vakna ein morgun hesumegin hetta áratúsundið (What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium). Simonsen’s latest poetry collection, Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av sjógvi minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum (The biological composition of a drop of seawater is reminiscent of the blood in my veins), was nominated for the 2024 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
