Finnish writer Minna Canth became a single mother, businesswoman, and author all at once. Instead of being satisfied with the simple and retired...
The Language Debate in Finland
In Swedish women’s prose of the 1980s, we find an attitude that is focused on the self and is explicitly critical of language, as well as a...
An important theme in Finnish Women’s Literature is the criticism of child-rearing. The idyllic surface is broken, and no family member is exempt...
The change of decade from the 1980s to the 1990s was interesting and eventful for Swedish minority literature in Finland. Epic depth,...
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
Tales from the Outskirts of Society
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
In the 1960s, the strong Icelandic ‘rímur’ (rhymes or ballads) tradition made way for a ‘free form’ modern poetry, which itself was part of an...
With her debut collection, Indeni – udenfor (1967; Within – Without), Danish writer Kirsten Thorup succeeded in placing herself from the...
Three female Finland-Swedish authors who are generally included among the second wave of modernists began writing in Helsinki during the 1930s:...
