Recently added articles from Scandinavian Review:
The Aurora Borealis
Oct 01, 2008; ... What were those strange quivering lights in the northern sky that both fascinated and frightened people on earth for millennia? A Norwegian scientist led the way toward finally answering that question. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN PART of the world have marveled at the ...
Swinging Up North
Oct 01, 2008; ... For almost a century Copenhagen has been showing why Danish jazz isn't a cultural oxymoron. SUMMER FESTIVALS, CONCERTS, AND CDS NOTWITHSTANDing, some people will never completely accept Danish jazz as anything but a cultural oxymoron, along the lines of Chinese yodeling or Portuguese ...
SCANSCOPE
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEWS * ANECDOTES * TRIVIA A STATUE OF GEORGE C. MARSHALL, the U.S. general and secretary of state in the 1940s, has been unveiled in Oslo very close to one erected decades earlier honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Marshall was chief of staff of the U.S. armed forces during the ...
The Heat Beneath
Oct 01, 2008; ... Iceland is in the forefront of global research and development on geothermal energy. Now the country has launched an ambitious program to tap deeper geothermal fields, up to five kilometers below the surface. THE HELLISHEIDI REGION JUST EAST OF ICELAND'S CAPITAL city, Reykjavik, looks ...
Peerless Paavo
Oct 01, 2008; ... Paavo Nurmi, winner of 12 Olympic medals, was the dominant middle-distance runner of the first half of the 20th century. FINNISH NATIONAL PRIDE RAN HIGH IN THE SUMMER OF 1952. Helsinki was playing host to the Summer Olympic Games and the barely 35-year-old country was a center of ...
'The Fighting Dane' Was a U.S. Marshal
Oct 01, 2008; ... Christian Madsen, a native of Copenhagen, served as a legendary law officer in the Oklahoma Territory in the 1890s. CHRIS MADSEN was having a hard time getting a good night's sleep. Bullets kept coming up through the floorboards of his rented room in Beaver City, Oklahoma, in 1893 ....
The Nordic Model: Scandinavia Since 1945
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Nordic Model: Scandinavia Since 1945 By Mary Hilson Reaktion Books Ltd., London, 2008 224 pages, softcover, $24.95 ISBN: 1-86189-366-3 The political and social structures of the Scandinavian nations have long been considered models for government and public policy. The Nordic model ...
The Lord of Nesserland
Oct 01, 2008; ... The increasingly successful Swedish novelist and mystery writer Håkan Nesser has had his books translated into more than 20 languages and earned an impressive array of writing awards. HÅKAN NESSER WAS born in 1950 in Kumla, Sweden, but has lived the greater part of his adult life in ...
Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
Oct 01, 2008; ... Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts Edited and with introductions by Lucy Creagh, Helena Kåberg and Barbara Miller Lane The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 2008 352 pages, softcover, $35 ISBN: 978-0-87070-722-3 Modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary ...
The Redbreast
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Redbreast ByJo Nesbø Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett HarperCollins, New York, New York, 2006 52 1 pages, hardcover, $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-06-113399-2 Jo Nesbø is a musician, songwriter, economist and one of Europe's most critically acclaimed and successful crime writers ....
Nordic Landscapes: Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe
Oct 01, 2008; ... Nordic Landscapes: Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe Edited by Michael Jones and Kenneth R. Olwig University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008 664 pages, softcover, $35 ISBN: 978-0-8166-3915-1 This book predicted by some to become a classic in its field, ...
New European Poets
Oct 01, 2008; ... New European Poets Edited by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2008 402 pages, softcover, $18 ISBN: 978-1-55597-492-3 The editors enlisted the services of 22 regional editors to select the 290 poets represented in this volume. Many of the more ...
To Siberia
Oct 01, 2008; ... To Siberia By Per Petterson Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2008 256 pages, hardcover, $22 ISBN: 978-1-55597-506-7 This is another book by the author of the acclaimed novel Out Stealing Horses. In it, a brother and sister are forced ever ...
The Draining Lake
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Draining Lake By Arnaldur Indridason Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, New York, 2008 320 pages, hardcover, $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-312-35873-0 Protagonist Erlendur Sveinsson is called to investigate a skeleton weighed ...
Historical Dictionary of Norway
Oct 01, 2008; ... Historical Dictionary of Norway By Jan Sjåvik The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2008 272 pages, hardcover, $80 ISBN: 978-0-8108-5753-7 This handy reference work provides a wealth of information that illuminates Norway's history, society and culture. It does so dirough a chronology, ...
Seal Woman
Oct 01, 2008; ... Seal Woman By Solveig Eggerz Ghost Road Press, Denver, Colorado, 2008 284 pages, softcover, $19.95 ISBN: 978-09789456-9-5 Born in Iceland, Ms. Eggerz has worked as a journalist as well as a professor of writing and research and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature. In this first novel ...
The Parson's Widow
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Parson's Widow By Marja-Liisa Vartio Translated from the Finnish by AiIi and Austin Flint Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, Illinois, 2008 256 pages, softcover, $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-56478-483-4 Marja-Liisa Vartio (1924-1966) was a major Finnish writer who wrote lyric poetry, short ...
Linka's Diary: A Norwegian Immigrant Story in Words and Sketches
Oct 01, 2008; ... Linka's Diary: A Norwegian Immigrant Story in Words and Sketches Edited by Marvin Slind and Gracia Grindal Lutheran University Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2008 340 pages, softcover, $30 ISBN: 1-932688-28-5 Linka (Caroline Dorothea Margrethe Keyser) was born in Kristiansund, Norway, in ...
Skipper Worse
Oct 01, 2008; ... Skipper Worse By Alexander Lange Kielland Translated from the Norwegian by Christopher Fauske Edited by Jeff Voccola Cross-Cultural Communications, Merrick, NewYork, 2008 168 pages, softcover, $15 ISBN: 978-0-89304-111-3 First published in 1880 by one of the leading Norwegian writers of ...
Alberta and Freedom
Oct 01, 2008; ... Alberta and Freedom By Cora Sandel Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan Peter Owen Publishers, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, 2008 246 pages, softcover, $23.95 ISBN: 978-0-7206-1263-9 Born in Oslo in 1880, Cora Sandel is considered one of the foremost Scandinavian writers of ...