Scandinavian Literature

Scandinavian literature is the literature in the languages of Scandinavian countries of Northern Europe. Scandinavia includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

These peoples have produced an important and influential literature. Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, was largely responsible for the popularity of modern realistic drama in Europe, with plays like The Wild Duck and A Doll's House. Nobel prizes for literature have been awarded to Selma Lagerlöf, Verner von Heidenstam, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär L
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On the Calculation of Volume IV
Wolf Hour
On the Calculation of Volume III
The Ferryman and His Wife
The Colony
A Shining
Hide and Seek
Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
Gjentakelsen
The Details
Hildur (Hildur, #1)
The School of Night
The Shadow Murders (Department Q, #9)
Locked In (Department Q, #10)
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders #3)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
A Man Called Ove
Hunger
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenRonia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid LindgrenThe Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenMoominsummer Madness by Tove JanssonMoominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
Scandinavian Children's Books
161 books — 54 voters
Cirkeln by Mats StrandbergBeautiful Affliction by Lene FogelbergLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDoctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
Books Set in Sweden
118 books — 35 voters

Nordic Runes by Paul Rhys MountfortThe Book of Elven Runes by The Silver ElvesFuthark by Edred ThorssonAt the Well of Wyrd by Edred ThorssonThe Spirit of Hunir Awakens (Part 1) by Frank A Rúnaldrar
Runes Runes Runes
27 books — 9 voters
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,221 books — 1,246 voters

A Frog in the Fjord by Lorelou DesjardinsThe 100 Unwritten Norwegian Social Laws by Egil Aslak Aursand HagerupNorway in Pictures by Eric BraunIsland Summers by Tilly Culme-SeymourNorway - Culture Smart! by Linda March
Life in Modern Norway (Non-Fiction)
93 books — 4 voters
Colloquial Danish by Kirsten GadeVidere mod dansk - trin for trin by Lisbet ThorborgWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsTeach Yourself Danish by Bente ElsworthPå vej til dansk - trin for trin by Lisbet Thorborg
Language Learning: Danish (Dansk)
43 books — 3 voters


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