One August day in 2008 the Norwegian Labour Party's most colourful MP, Arve Storefjeld, is discov...

29 January 1912. In a train compartment in Ogden, Utah, a Danish author was found unconscious. Th...

Fru Inés is a city novel, vividly evoking the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth-century Con...

Klaus Rifbjerg's 1958 novel has become a constantly reprinted classic of twentieth-century Danish...

This anthology brings together essays written by BA, MA and PhD students of Nordic Cinema at UCL....

Murder in the Dark sports a winning combination of engaging crime narrative and cool, unsentiment...

From birth, Vega Maria Dreary is caught in a vice of conflicting parental expectations. Her fathe...

In Tallinn in 1946 a young boy is transfixed by the beauty of a luxurious cream-coloured car glid...

To most English-language readers and theatre goers, Strindberg is mainly known for naturalistic p...

Victoria Benedictsson published Money, her first novel, in 1885. Set in rural southern Sweden whe...

Ypsilon is a human being reduced to the most basic essentials, a naked one-eyed brain floating in...

Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a ...