The change of decade from the 1980s to the 1990s was interesting and eventful for Swedish minority literature in Finland. Epic depth,...
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
Norwegian poet Eldrid Lunden made her debut in 1968 with the poetry collection f.eks. juli (July for instance), a brazen new book that...
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...
Many women writers in Sweden in the 1970s wanted to speak for themselves and deliver testimony of their own experiences in their own voice. In...
The socially conscious Swedish writer Moa Martinson, The enfant terrible of the welfare state for two decades, her first name was a...
All of Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s works revolve around the feelings of coercion, desperation, and revolt that the world of her childhood fostered....
Lyric poetry from the 1960s.
Young adult fiction underwent dramatic changes in the 1960s and the following decades. New ways of depicting the experiences of young people were...
Postmodern Storytellers
The Danish author Vita Andersen's prose poetry was nicknamed knækprosa (broken prose) because the poems were apparently...
Cecilie Løveid's first three lyrical prose novels make a radical break from the social realist novel dominant in Norway in the 1970s. Løveid...
