Most publishers assumed that, like all trends, the appetite for Nordic Noir would wane and another genre would slip into…
October 2017 – Nordic Countries
Yo-Yo, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir’s award-winning novel, brought to English readers in the translation by Rory McTurk, is the chronicle of a…
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was, the latest novel in English by Icelandic poet, writer, and lyricist, Sjón, and excellently…
Finishing this short collection of contemporary Nordic writing, I have an overwhelming sense of a region suffering trauma. Or at…
Twenty or thirty years ago, most people in the English-speaking world knew little to nothing about Iceland, save for our…
One of the most original novels I’ve read in a long time, The Core of the Sun is set in…