Most publishers assumed that, like all trends, the appetite for Nordic Noir would wane and another genre would slip into its place; however, this certainly hasn’t been the case.
Yo-Yo, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir’s award-winning novel, brought to English readers in the translation by Rory McTurk, is the chronicle of a successful oncologist whose life, desp
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, the latest novel in English by Icelandic poet, writer, and lyricist, Sjón, and excellently translated by Victoria Cribb, continues the author’s
Finishing this short collection of contemporary Nordic writing, I have an overwhelming sense of a region suffering trauma. Or at least a group of authors from that region expressin
Twenty or thirty years ago, most people in the English-speaking world knew little to nothing about Iceland, save for our odd appearance in a 1990 episode of Twin Peaks (Google it!)
One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, The Core of the Sun is set in an alternative present – in the “Eusistocratic Republic of Finland”. This dystopian
It is 1938, some twenty-one years into Finnish independence, and the scarred layers of Helsinki society are continuing to reconcile the ghosts of civil war with a new, contemporary
Based on a brief description of the plot, you could be forgiven for mistaking Pajtim Statovci’s debut novel, My Cat Yugoslavia, for a whimsical, feel-good fairy tale full of talk
The setting of Cruel is the Night, the first of the Finnish author and editor Karo Hämäläinen’s novels to be translated into English, is not for the faint-hearted. Four Finnis
It is perhaps fair to say that the recent phenomenon of Nordic Noir – sparked by popular TV shows such as Wallander, The Bridge, Borgen and The Killing – has propelled Nordic f
