The works of Danish author and controversialist Suzanne Brøgger tell an unmistakable tale about the dark side of revolt and the consequences of NO...
The Danish modernism of the 1960s, of which Dorrit Willumsen was a part, had turned, in terms of cultural criticism, towards the modern consumer...
Late Symbolism and Modernism in Post-war Literature
Modernism and Women in post-war Norwegian Poetry
Tora Dahl certainly paid her dues before becoming a widely read author. She began writing in her late teens but did not publish her first book...
In Norway of the 1910s and 1920s there was a now hidden and forgotten undergrowth of erotic poetry written by women such as Halldis Moren Vesaas,...
Elsa Gress’s pen is, in her own word, heretical. The root cause and partial explanation for the repeated theme of being left out is a reflection...
Sonja Hauberg did not reach the age of thirty; she died of typhoid fever. In her lifetime she published two novels, Hvad vil du mig? (...
Torborg Nedreaas made her publishing debut at a relatively late age – thirty-nine years old – with two collections of short stories. She was...
In 1937 Tove Ditlevsen first had a poem published. The poem can be read as an allegory of her writing career, which was to produce one of the most...
Aase Hansen and Ellen Raae belonged to a generation of women for whom citizenship had been won, but the victory did not feel like a personal...
The Inter-War Period
