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...
Kerstin Ekman is a literary successor to Elin Wägner, and is close to her biting criticism of society and strong pathos. Her oeuvre began with a...
Eeva Joenpelto, Anu Kaipainen, and Eila Pennanen have all focused on women’s lives, on patriarchy, and on gender roles in their prose works,...
"The first Bomb detonated at the ‘Trinity’ site was called a ‘baby’. When the scientific fathers of the Manhattan-project telegraphed President...
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
The Women Writer’s Group in Ostrobothnia
Three female Finland-Swedish authors who are generally included among the second wave of modernists began writing in Helsinki during the 1930s:...
The focus of women's works shifted from the sexual aspects of motherhood in the 1930s to children as the targets of wanton violence during the war...
Stina Aronson, who published seventeen books, is best known for her depictions of life in the ‘wasteland’ of Norrbotten province. She acquired a...
The gloominess of post-war Finland created a deep thirst for art and literature. A great deal of poetry was published and an unusual percentage of...
Anna Bondestam took up literature after a Nordic novel competition in 1936 in which her debut novel, Panik i Rölleby (1936; Panic in...
One of Astrid Lindgren’s most effective techniques is to let imagination engulf reality. The interpretation of the world by a ‘lying’ child...
