In Swedish women’s prose of the 1980s, we find an attitude that is focused on the self and is explicitly critical of language, as well as a...
An important theme in Finnish Women’s Literature is the criticism of child-rearing. The idyllic surface is broken, and no family member is exempt...
The Swedish author Carola Hansson’s oeuvre is at the centre of the aesthetic turn of the tide and epistemological turbulence of the 1980s, but her...
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...
Three female Finland-Swedish authors who are generally included among the second wave of modernists began writing in Helsinki during the 1930s:...
All of Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s works revolve around the feelings of coercion, desperation, and revolt that the world of her childhood fostered....
The Norwegian author Herbjørg Wassmo made her debut as a poet in the 1970s, and has since written both drama and documentary literature. The five...
Vibeke Grønfeldt’s body of work has grown steadily and is now very comprehensive. However, despite the weight, despite the attention and respect...
The Danish author Vita Andersen's prose poetry was nicknamed knækprosa (broken prose) because the poems were apparently...
Based on the new research in women’s studies being conducted at Danish universities in the 1970s, a league of female reviewers arose who wrote...
In 1937 Tove Ditlevsen first had a poem published. The poem can be read as an allegory of her writing career, which was to produce one of the most...
When Sweden introduced universal suffrage in the 1920s, a number of established authors used the autobiographical genre to tell their story and...
