Tales from the Outskirts of Society
The Åland islands author Sally Salminen made her debut with the novel Katrina (1936; Eng. tr. Katrina), which became one of...
Women writers of the so-called primitivist movement write about lawless passion. The female characters of their novels often pay with their lives...
The socially conscious Swedish writer Moa Martinson, The enfant terrible of the welfare state for two decades, her first name was a...
In the 1980s, the historical novel, a centuries-old favourite among female readers, underwent a process of serious revision. The female heroes...
Throughout her long and popular writing career, Martha Christensen built on social realism and a critical involvement in how society treats the...
The Welfare Society Viewed from Below
Ingeborg Refling Hagen’s stories from the 1920s demonstrate national-romantic features and also a new form of poverty-realism in which rural life...
Ragnhild Jølsen’s life and writing is marked by the tension between her rural home village and the bohemian milieu in the capital city, between...
The writing of Regine Normann (1867-1939) lent a new dimension to the Norwegian region of Nordland. She fused folklore with authentic depictions...
Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf achieved her international breakthrough when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. At this point, she was...
Hulda Garborg wrote a lot, alternating between articles for journals and novels, but she concentrated particularly on various theatre genres. Much...
