In Conversation with Barbara Sjoholm
Sheila talks with Barbara Sjoholm about her work as a novelist, translator, and creative nonfiction writer.
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Barbara Sjoholm is a novelist, memoirist, translator, and mystery writer. In 1976 she co-founded Seal Press and later, Women in Translation, dedicated to publishing women's fiction from around the world. She works as a mentor to freelance editors and writers.
The Lonely Voyage of Betty Mouat, Part II
In the latter half of Chapter III of Barbara Sjoholm’s The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea, the author finds a woman who tells her the truth about women’s fishing history in Norway. “The Lonely Voyage of Betty Mouat” (c0ntinued) Excerpted by permission of the author from … Continue reading →
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The Lonely Voyage of Betty Mouat
The Lonely Voyage of Betty Mouat We are pleased to present Chapter VIII of Barbara Sjoholm’s new book in two parts. In this chapter, the author tracks down information on a woman who at age 59 was the sole survivor of a boating accident off the Shetland Islands in the winter of 1886. Looking for … Continue reading →
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A Conversation with writer Barbara Sjoholm
This past spring, The Seattle Times ran a review of Barbara Sjoholm”s new book The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O”Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea. The review opens: If Janet Forsyth lived in the here and now, instead of 17th-century Scotland, she would be on the front page across the country. … Continue reading →
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