Finishing this short collection of contemporary Nordic writing, I have an overwhelming sense of a region suffering trauma. Or at…
The Nordic Riveter
Twenty or thirty years ago, most people in the English-speaking world knew little to nothing about Iceland, save for our…
The Icelandic author Sjón, his translator Victoria Cribb and his UK publisher Sceptre have honoured The Riveter magazine by giving…
I had read the Finnish writer Antti Tuomainen’s two previous novels, The Healer and Dark as My Heart, in Norwegian…
A haunting and subtle exploration of memory, oppression, betrayal and corruption, set against the Soviet occupation of Estonia. Recommended by…
A Finnish World War II classic and an indelible part of the national psyche, available as Unknown Soldiers in a…