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)
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
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

Poems of Color by Wendy KeeleThe Nordic Knitting Primer by Kristin DrysdaleNorsk Strikkedesign by Margaretha FinsethAlice Starmore's Charts for Color Knitting by Alice StarmoreSmall Sweaters by Lise Kolstad
color knitting
8 books — 2 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

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Best European Novels Of All Times
121 books — 18 voters


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Michael Booth
They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one.
Michael Booth, The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

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