Empowering diverse voices through multilingual writing and innovative digital education.
The Nordic Multilingual Writing LAB project empowers older youth and adults with diverse backgrounds, supports educators working in multicultural environments, and promotes multilingual writing through the innovative use of digital education tools and technologies.
Nina Sokol
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Nina Sokol is a poet and translator in the midst of translating plays, poems and novels by Danish writers. She was a grant poet-in-residence at The Vermont Studio Center in 2011. She has received several grants from the Danish Art’s Council to translate plays, including a play written by the fairy tale writer H.C. Andersen which was published by the journal "InTranslation." She has also translated numerous novels by such writers as Robert Zola Christensen, Kristian Himmelstrup, whose novel, Pio, was nominated for DR Roman Prisen (prestigious literary prize in Denmark), Thomas Lagermand Lundme, and Anna Grue (Danish crime novelist). Translations of poetry include Mikael Josephens' trilogy (excerpts of which also appeared in the journal “InTranslation”). Her own poems have appeared in American journals, including Miller's Pond, the Hiram Poetry Review and the (Australian) Verandah Journal and a collection was published (Escape and Other Poems) by Lapwing Publications in Belfast, Ireland (2015). The Silence Sound Makes (published by Spuyten Duyvil in NY, 2023) was Nina Sokol's second poetry collection.
