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)

Trine Villemann
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Trine Villemann, Queen of Deception

Halldór Laxness
Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness, Under the Glacier

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