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)
The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew    FoxA Faraway Island by Annika ThorThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma LagerlöfPancakes for Findus by Sven NordqvistLucia Morning in Sweden by Ewa Rydåker
Sweden in Juvenile Fiction
109 books — 5 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

Salka Valka by Halldór LaxnessCan’t Run, Can’t Hide by Yrsa SigurdardottirKaritas Untitled by Kristín Marja BaldursdóttirI Remember You by Yrsa SigurdardottirOn Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason
Books Set in Iceland
6 books — 2 voters


Steen Langstrup
I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove the pistol to the back of his head, and shoot. Once, I even did two at the same time, but they were really drunk.” Poul-Erik aka ‘Willy’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Steen Langstrup, The Informer

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