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...
During the 1970s, Agneta Pleijel was one of the leaders of the generation of critics that stood up for a new literature that was to be better...
Existential Resistance Stories
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...
Three female Finland-Swedish authors who are generally included among the second wave of modernists began writing in Helsinki during the 1930s:...
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,...
New Literary Fronts.
The authors of ecclesiastical history tend to be theologians and church leaders. Traditionally speaking, they are usually men, and women play a...
In Greenland and the Sami Language Area, women’s modern literary production began with the political trends in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
The Cultural Duality of Emigrant Literature
Modernism and Women in post-war Norwegian Poetry
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...
