Scandinavian Literature

Scandinavian literature is the literature in the languages of Scandinavian countries of Northern Europe. Scandinavia includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

These peoples have produced an important and influential literature. Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, was largely responsible for the popularity of modern realistic drama in Europe, with plays like The Wild Duck and A Doll's House. Nobel prizes for literature have been awarded to Selma Lagerlöf, Verner von Heidenstam, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär L
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Wolf Hour
The Ferryman and His Wife
On the Calculation of Volume III
The Colony
Brightly Shining
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
Hildur (Hildur, #1)
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The School of Night
Hidden in Memories (The Åre Murders #3)
The Details
A Shining
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Hidden in Shadows  (The Åre Murders #2)
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
A Man Called Ove
The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
Hunger
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Best European Novels Of All Times
121 books — 17 voters
Nordic Runes by Paul Rhys MountfortThe Book of Elven Runes by The Silver ElvesFuthark by Edred ThorssonAt the Well of Wyrd by Edred ThorssonThe Spirit of Hunir Awakens (Part 1) by Frank A Rúnaldrar
Runes Runes Runes
27 books — 9 voters

Salka Valka by Halldór LaxnessCan’t Run, Can’t Hide by Yrsa SigurdardottirKaritas Untitled by Kristín Marja BaldursdóttirI Remember You by Yrsa SigurdardottirOn Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason
Books Set in Iceland
6 books — 2 voters
The Sky Over Rebecca by Matthew    FoxA Faraway Island by Annika ThorThe Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma LagerlöfPancakes for Findus by Sven NordqvistLucia Morning in Sweden by Ewa Rydåker
Sweden in Juvenile Fiction
108 books — 4 voters



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