Sonja Hansen is forty-something, unhappy, single, a Danish translator of Swedish crime novels, living in bustling, modern Copenhagen, and originally…
the nordic riveter
Hans Christian Andersen’s characters belong to the world; Karen Blixen first told stories from her African farm in English; and…
Two decades before Paul Auster published his meta-detective fiction in the stories of The New York Trilogy, leading Swedish author Kerstin…
He said: Philanthropy is simply vanity. Charity is the way ambitious ladies keep score. You with your little gender…
Meet the vampire next door: s/he is not even the most terrifying monster in this Stockholm suburb seemingly abandoned by…
In The Darkest Day Håkan Nesser introduces the reader to Rosemarie and Karl Erik Hermansson, a middle-aged couple who are…
The coming-of-age novel is almost a rite of passage for the emerging novelist, a vehicle through which a voice is…
One evening in August 1947, twenty-four-year-old David Rosenberg from Łódź alights in Södertälje, a small Swedish town with a big…
It begins innocuously enough: “‘Mum, I need a pee.’ ‘Well, go to the toilet then.’ ‘It’s not there.’” Okay, maybe…
Who was Samuel, and why did he die? These are the central questions in a gripping, jigsaw puzzle of truth,…
Sweden may be famous as the birthplace of the contemporary Scandi-crime wave, Pippi Longstocking and the Nobel Prize in Literature,…
If you are going to read only one Nordic Noir novel in your life, you should read this. It has…
