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...
A number of Kerstin Söderholm’s traits qualify her as a Finland-Swedish counterpart to Karin Boye and Virginia Woolf: the privilege of working at...
Karin Boye’s most inspired poems are born at the juncture of “the world of appearances – a world that depicts”, and “the other world, the heavy,...
Korpfolksungen (The Raven People’s Child) is the Finland-Swedish author and artist Irmelin Sandman Lilius’s fortieth book. She made her...
The New Women’s Forum of the 70s
The Finnish author Hagar Olsson’s debut from 1916 was brought out the same year as Edith Södergran’s first poetry collection....
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...
Sweden was the first among the Nordic countries to allow women access to a university education. Female students ostensibly lived under the same...
Emergence of a Female Public Arena in Norway
Camilla Collett's major work Amtmandens Døttre (The District Governor’s Daughters) is the first realistic ‘propaganda novel’ in the...
Ellen Key put focus on complexity. not only in connection with the women’s cause but in general with regard to the relationship between tradition...
Wendela Hebbe, who was active in the 1840s at Aftonbladet, the biggest and most scandalous newspaper in Sweden, has gone down in history...
