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...
Many contemporary women writers appear caught up in a paradox of form: on the one hand, women in contemporary literature create literary...
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...
Existential Poetry
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...
The works of Danish author and controversialist Suzanne Brøgger tell an unmistakable tale about the dark side of revolt and the consequences of NO...
