Recently added articles from Scandinavian Review:

In Palmstruch We Trust

Oct 01, 2007; Dewey, Donald ... How a Dutch financier gave Sweden the dubious honor of being the first European country to issue paper money HARD AS IT MIGHT BE TO GRASP TODAY, THERE WAS A vast monetary history between the first time a caveman reached under his animal skin to get to a clamshell and the last time we ...

In the Wake

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... In the Wake By Per Petterson Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born 240 pages, softcover, $13 ISBN: 0-312-42704-2 When Arvid Jansen comes to one morning, leaning against the door of a bookstore in Oslo, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes." His parents and brothers are ...

In Another Light: Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... In Another Light: Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century By Patricia G. Berman The Vendome Press, New York, New York, 2007 272 pages, 288 color illustrations, hardcover, $75 ISBN: 13: 978-0-86565-181-4 In her introduction to this beautiful tome, the author explains that Danish ...

Tales for Children, Icelandic Style

Oct 01, 2007; McMillan, Bruce ... It seems Icelandic children's books have never been better. Some 40 authors are currently writing for young people and original Icelandic children's books appear at a rate of 30 to 40 per year. SOME ACADEMICS BELIEVE THAT ICELANDIC CHILDREN'S literature first appeared with Poem for ...

Out Stealing Horses

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Out Stealing Horses By Per Petterson Translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2007 260 pages, hardcover, $22 ISBN: 978-1-55597-470-1 This book earned its internationally acclaimed author Britain's prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize as ...

Inventing Finnish Music: Contemporary Composers from Medieval to Modern

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Inventing Finnish Music: Contemporary Composers from Medieval to Modern By Kimmo Korhonen Translated from the Finnish by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Finnish Music Information Center, 2007 248 pages, softcover, ISBN: 978-952-5076-61-5 This concise, chronological history of Finnish art music is the ...

A Scallop Saga

Oct 01, 2007; Tollefsen, Astrid ... How "commuting" Norwegian fishermen helped build the scallop fisheries along America's Atlantic and Pacific coasts WHEN I ENJOY SCALLOPS, COD OR KING CRAB, MY THOUGHTS go back to the final Norwegian emigration to America and the fascinating lives ofthose courageous men and women who, by ...

The Invisible

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... The Invisible By Mats Wahl Translated from the Swedish by Katarina E. Tucker Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, 2007 186 pages, hardcover, $16 ISBN: 13: 978-0-374-33609-7 This is the first novel Mats Wahl has had published in English even though he has written more than 40 ...

Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience By Jennifer Eastman Attebery University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007 232 pages, softcover, $20 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4768-2 Written by a professor of English at Idaho State University, this book offers a ...

Unspoken

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Unspoken By Mari Jungstedt Translated from the Swedish by Tiina Nunnally St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, New York, 2007 256 pages, softcover, $23.95 ISBN: 13: 978-0-312-36377-2 This book is a follow-up to the author's lauded debut crime novel Unseen and again features Detective Anders ...

The Princess of Burundi

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... The Princess of Burundi By Kjell Eriksson Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, New York, 2006 300 pages, hardcover, $23.95 ISBN: 0-312-32767-6 When a jogger finds a dead body in the snow, the members of Uppsala's police force ...

Written in the Sand

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Written in the Sand By Carl Soyland Translated from the Norwegian by Rigmor K. Swensen Western Home Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005 298 pages, softcover, $16.95 ISBN-13: 978-0-929636-56-6 Carl Soyland, born in Norway in 1894, was an organist, vagabond, author, reporter, editor and ...

SCANSCOPE

Oct 01, 2007; Anonymous ... NEWS * ANECDOTES * TRIVIA HENRIK IBSEN'S PEER GYNT has been a notorious dramatic challenge ever since it first appeared in 1867. For starters, the Norwegian playwright not only wrote the epic fantasy in verse, but specifically as a dramatic text to be read rather than staged. To help ...

2015: Less Than A Decade To Go

Oct 01, 2007; Hinrichsen, Don ... The Nordic countries are in the forefront in urging the rest of the world to increase efforts to reach the 2015 deadline for achieving the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals. IN SEPTEMBER 2000, THE WORLD COMMUNITY GATHERED AT the United Nations in New York ushered in the new millennium ...

The Golden Age II

Oct 01, 2007; Dewey, Donald ... Lars von Trier didn't invent the Danish film industry, but he's a reminder of when Hollywood took its cue from Copenhagen. IF THE DANISH FILM INDUSTRY WERE HOLLYWOOD, ITS history over the last century-plus could be viewed as having consisted of little between D.W. Griffith and Gus Van ...

The Rise of Riise

Oct 01, 2007; Gange, Eva Klerck ... Master photographer John Olav Riise, apparently appreciated primarily in France during the mid-20th century, is slowly finding wider recognition-even in his native Norway. JOHN OLAV RIISE (1885-1978) IS A UNIQUE FIGURE IN THE history of Norwegian photography. There were very few other ...