Tag: Nordic Literature

A New Home for Nordic Women Writers

Today is International Women’s Day and one way to celebrate is to visit the newly launched website dedicated to Nordic women writers. The site spans 1000 years of literature and features hundreds of articles on 800 writers. "The story begins in Iceland during the transition from oral narrative tradition to the introduction of written culture. And it ends with a chapter on Sami and Greenlandic women’s conquest of written language in our own time." Karen Blixen, 1923. Better known in these parts as Isak Dinesen, the author of Out of AfricaAside from in-depth pieces on particular writers the website also includes...

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