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)
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

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-OlsenAn Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene TurstenThe Chestnut Man by Søren SveistrupThe Lost Village by Camilla Sten
52 Book Club 2023: #24 Nordic Noir
130 books — 98 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanThe Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. HarrisLoki by Mike VasichNorse Mythology by Neil GaimanWolves by C. Gockel
Loki: God of Mischief
191 books — 223 voters


Steen Langstrup
Why didn’t you call me at… Sorry, I have no idea where I’ve been. Berlin? Was it Berlin today?” William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup ...more
Steen Langstrup, Metro

Thomas Carlyle
I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshippers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.
Thomas Carlyle

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