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
On the Calculation of Volume III
The Ferryman and His Wife
The Colony
Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
The Details
Hide and Seek
Hildur (Hildur, #1)
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins (Millennium #8)
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders #3)
Gjentakelsen
A Shining
Blood Ties (Kongeriket, #2)
The School of Night
El mentalista (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #1)
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)

Steen Langstrup
There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.
Steen Langstrup, In The Shadow of Sadd

Bo Brennan
It’s not just dark in Scandinavia.
Bo Brennan

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