Join translator Barbara Sjoholm for the launch of the first English translation of With the Lapps in the High Mountains, a true account of Emilie Demant Hatt’s nine-month stay with a Sami family in northern Sweden.

Published in 1913, the book tells of Damant Hatt’s stay with the family and of her participation in a dramatic reindeer migration over snow-packed mountains to Norway with another Sami community in 1908. A single woman in her 30s, Demant Hatt immersed herself in the Sami language and culture. She writes vividly of daily life, women’s work, children’s play, and the care of reindeer herds in Lapland a century ago. For this book launch, translator Barbara Sjoholm talks about Demant Hatt’s life, her book, and the work of translating the book 100 years later.

Barbara Sjoholm, an award-winning writer and translator, is the author of The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland. Her travel articles about Scandinavia have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Slate. She lives in Port Townsend.

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