In his recent book, Kim Simonsen asks: what is the philosophy of fish? Do trees remember us as we were as children? Do fungi care for us? The work unfolds as a lyrical and philosophical exploration of the sea as origin, as element, and as a space where life and death are inseparable. Around the sea, a multiplicity of living beings gathers—birds, insects, bacteria, fungi, and viruses—forming a dense, shifting ecology in which human life is only one among many.
The book reflects on grief, especially the loss of the father, and explores how life after death may be spoken of through the intertwined experiences of loss and love. Moving between literature, medical science, and Greek mythology, Simonsen traces the invisible connections that bind us to what lies beyond perception.
The work has been published in Italy, Hungary, and Estonia, and is forthcoming in the United States and North Macedonia.
Simonsen is a Faroese writer and scholar. In 2024, he was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize for the Faroe Islands. He has written seven books and holds both a mag.art. and a PhD in Nordic literature.
He has received several literary awards, including the Faroese National Literary Award and most recently the Atlantic Airways Prize in 2025. A number of his other works have been translated into several languages, including Danish and English.
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