How to write about a man best known for telling his own story? Today, Primo Levi is viewed as one…
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What do Norway and North-Korea have in common? The answer is the Russian border. Between Erika Fatland’s egalitarian homeland and…
A year ago, I was given the chance to leaf through Roald Dahl’s mother’s book of Norwegian fairy tales. The…
Knut Hamsun detested England. To the Nobel laureate, the island in the west embodied modernity at its worst: industrialism, materialism,…
In 2017, there were two Norwegian nominees for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. One was Vigdis Hjorth, who’s controversial yet…
In the spring of 2019, after the ‘caliphate’ established by ISIS had finally crumbled, children of jihadists and their niqab-clad…