A feeling that time is just passing by, and a longing for freedom, love, and a language that can contain life’s and the ego’s many sparkling...
Postmodern Storytellers
The Norwegian author Herbjørg Wassmo made her debut as a poet in the 1970s, and has since written both drama and documentary literature. The five...
Inge Eriksen, who lives in constantly critical confrontation with the doctrines of 1968, may also be the Danish author and cultural personality...
The Danish author Jette Drewsen’s work from the 1970s has become a symbol of the upheaval in literature, politics, and private life which the new...
The Danish author Vita Andersen's prose poetry was nicknamed knækprosa (broken prose) because the poems were apparently...
Cecilie Løveid's first three lyrical prose novels make a radical break from the social realist novel dominant in Norway in the 1970s. Løveid...
On the New Language-Conscious Literature of the 60s and 70s
The Cultural Duality of Emigrant Literature
The Welfare Society Viewed from Below
Social criticism and new consciousness in Norwegian women’s literature of the 1970s.
Based on the new research in women’s studies being conducted at Danish universities in the 1970s, a league of female reviewers arose who wrote...