In Thomas Enger and his translator, Kari Dickson, Orenda Books have once again come up with a winning combination. Enger…
October 2017 – Nordic Countries
In Torkil Damhaug’s novel Fireraiser, one character tells another that her psychiatrist has abandoned his medical practice in favour of…
Little Lord is the first part of Norwegian author Johan Borgen’s trilogy focusing on upper-class boy Wilfred – the Little…
In Norway we have more than one writer who is called the “Grandfather of Nordic Noir”. I am afraid, though,…
While we await the sixth and final instalment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ground-breaking, genre-redefining My Struggle series, his publisher Harvill…
Ever since I began learning Norwegian back in 2006, I’ve been impressed by the active literary scene that thrives in…
As the grandson of two rabbis, I knew some of my family would worry when I told them I was…
When people in the UK look towards the Nordic countries, what do they really see? On the map they will…
Having focused on the literature of individual countries in previous editions, in this, our third outing for The Riveter magazine from…
I became a Nordic Riveter a couple of decades ago – before Nordic Noir became the big brand it is…
