The change of decade from the 1980s to the 1990s was interesting and eventful for Swedish minority literature in Finland. Epic depth,...
A number of Swedish female poets in the 1980s were accused of writing impenetrably, but they become the central figures of the period. Ann...
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...
Norwegian poet Eldrid Lunden made her debut in 1968 with the poetry collection f.eks. juli (July for instance), a brazen new book that...
Three female Finland-Swedish authors who are generally included among the second wave of modernists began writing in Helsinki during the 1930s:...
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...
Swedish author Sonja Åkesson made her debut in 1957 with Situationer (Situations) and published one other collection during the 1950s. In...
Lyric poetry from the 1960s.
In the 1950s and 1960s a series of women writers took centre stage in Nordic literature. They stood forth as full-fledged modernists and they were...
A feeling that time is just passing by, and a longing for freedom, love, and a language that can contain life’s and the ego’s many sparkling...
Postmodern Storytellers