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...
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...
A secure idyll that covers up a frightful abyss but always cracks eventually is a typical scenario in works by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove...
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,...
Finnish author Eeva Kilpi made her debut in 1959 with the collection of short stories Noidanlukko (Moonwort), and during the 1960s she...
Much of the literature written by women after World War I bespoke a reaction to a new trend in sexual morality. The new age, the new woman, and...
The Cultural Duality of Emigrant Literature
Social criticism and new consciousness in Norwegian women’s literature of the 1970s.
In Norway of the 1910s and 1920s there was a now hidden and forgotten undergrowth of erotic poetry written by women such as Halldis Moren Vesaas,...
Torborg Nedreaas made her publishing debut at a relatively late age – thirty-nine years old – with two collections of short stories. She was...
