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...
Existential Resistance Stories
The Women Writer’s Group in Ostrobothnia
In the early 1950s one of the great oeuvres in Swedish literature was initiated when the young Birgitta Trotzig published Ur de älskandes liv...
Lyric poetry from the 1960s.
On the New Language-Conscious Literature of the 60s and 70s
The start of the 1960s saw the publication of the first poetry collection by Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir who, as a modernist and a multifaceted...
The work of collecting material from the oral tradition of nineteenth-century Finland received financial support from the government and resulted...
By and large, what we can find out about Ingeborg Grytten, one of Norway’s two seventeenth-century poetesses, has to be gleaned from her hymns. We...
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter drove a wedge into patriarchal male society. She is known as the first female hymn writer in Denmark-Norway to assume a...
No woman and no deity in the Middle Ages attracted the poets like the Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. Marian poetry was initially written in the...
