There has been talk of a turning point in the literary climate of Sweden around 1975. New poets make their debut in part thanks to state...
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
The socially conscious Swedish writer Moa Martinson, The enfant terrible of the welfare state for two decades, her first name was a...
In the early 1950s one of the great oeuvres in Swedish literature was initiated when the young Birgitta Trotzig published Ur de älskandes liv...
With her remarkable debut novel Tjärdalen (1953; The Tar Kiln), Sara Lidman laid the ground for a magnificent literary world, to which...
Cecilie Løveid's first three lyrical prose novels make a radical break from the social realist novel dominant in Norway in the 1970s. Løveid...
Throughout her long and popular writing career, Martha Christensen built on social realism and a critical involvement in how society treats the...
Even though much Nordic ballad tradition of the last four hundred and more years has been lost, the surviving tradition represents an overwhelming...
