Scandinavian Review back issues from January 1997:
Clean, Green power?
Jan 01, 1997; ... The new "big debate" in Iceland concerns the balance between the utilization of the country's resources for energy production and the protection of Iceland's unique environment This is not simply a debate on which objective should get priority, economic growth or nature preservation. The debate ...
The politics of whaling in Norway and Iceland
Jan 01, 1997; ... Norwegians and Icelanders are frequently criticized by foreigners and environmental organizations for violating international law and "butchering" an endangered species, the whale. Yet any representative from these societies will passionately articulate how and why hunting whales is consistent ...
The little exchange that could
Jan 01, 1997; ... London isn't worried. Neither is Paris or Frankfurt. Reykjavik is not likely to replace any of them as a financial center of Europe. In fact they might not even be aware of the Iceland Stock Exchange (ISE), and who could blame them, for Iceland is the smallest country in the world to have a ...
Nordic legacy: Historic ship rebuilt in U.S.
Jan 01, 1997; ... Wilmington, DE is the site of one of the most ambitious Scandinavian American projects currently under way: the faithful reconstruction of the 9th ship that carried settlers to the New World, the Swedish merchant vessel Kalmar Nyckel (key of Kalmar). The original ship left Gothenburg in ...
Solveig Krey, Norway's sentry under the sea
Jan 01, 1997; ... The first woman ever to command a submarine, Solveig Krey patrols the fjords of Norway in the Kobben S318, a cucumber-shaped war machine that packs 21 wire-guided torpedoes in its bow tubes and an all-male crew, which this writer joined to provide a first-hand report. Commander Krey ...
Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, master builder of construction toys
Jan 01, 1997; ... Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen loves pop music. He says: "I'm terribly lucky because for the first time a younger generation to some extent shares the same taste as its parents. Half the time my kids are listening to Eric Clapton, the Beatles, Joe Cocker, the Stones and Janis Joplin." Kristiansen, 49, ...
Erika Lagerbielke: On the cutting edge of Swedish glass design
Jan 01, 1997; ... Everyone foresaw an academic career for young Erika Lagerbielke. She had had an easy time of it in school and gotten excellent grades. But by the time she left high school the parental influence proved too strong. Not that she had been pressured into artistic pursuits by her mother, a ...
Sverre Fehn: A universal architect with regional roots
Jan 01, 1997; ... Americans interested in architecture have something exciting to look forward to. An English translation of the book about Sverre Fehn's collected works will soon appear in this country. A year from now, in the fall of 1998, the Fehn retrospective, which is now being shown in several European ...
Sweden's new museums: Modern art and architecture
Jan 01, 1997; ... After ten years of planning and preparation Sweden's new Museums of Modern Art and Architecture are opening in Stockholm in February 1998. At last one of the finest collections of modern art in Europe will have enough space to do justice to its permanent collection, while also housing a rotating ...
Frontier manor: Filling up at the Russian Border
Jan 01, 1997; ... Finland has the European Union's only border with Russia. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, hundreds of trucks pass daily through the crossing at Vaalimaa on the road from St. Petersburg to the West and from Helsinki to the East. Just short of the frontier there is a strikingly handsome ...
"O Meu Samba": Embracing Rio samba in Finland
Jan 01, 1997; ... Heading into a cavernous restaurant in central Helsinki, eight members of Imperio do Papagaio, one of six samba schools in Finland, take their places on a small dance floor. With one signal, the four drummers burst into vibrant syncopation, somewhere between the martial rhythms of a marching ...
One man's miracle
Jan 01, 1997; ... I am by inclination a devotee of quirky churches. There's the church in the Inuit village of Inuvik that's shaped like a sort of extra-terrestrial igloo. Then there's the church in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, which doubles as a pizza parlor. Then, of course, there's the tiny Modrudalur ...
Escapades on thin ice
Jan 01, 1997; ... To stand and watch the windswept ice heave up and down in long rolling waves as the sea rose and fell under the frozen surface was a fascinating sight. It was also, well, a little scary. Why? Because I was standing on the ice, no more than 10 cm thick, at least a kilometer from land. My ...
The ASF eighteenth annual translation prize
Jan 01, 1997; ... Since 1980 the Foundation has offered an annual prize to encourage translation of Scandinavian literary works into English. The prize now carries an honorarium of $2000 to accompany the winner's engraved bronze medallion, and the scope of the competition has been expanded to include writers born ...
"The Knifethrower's Woman"
Jan 01, 1997; ... excerpts from a narrative poem by Kerstin Ekman translated from the Swedish by Rose-Marie Oster 1997 ASF Translation Prize Winner This narrative poem written in free verse in 1990 is among Kerstin Ekman's latest works. It deals with the experiences of a woman who is undergoing ...
Great Royal Palaces of Sweden
Jan 01, 1997; ... *Great Royal Palaces of Sweden Adapted from the Swedish by Maria Teresa Train New York: M.T. Train/Scala Books, 1997 104 pages. 100 color photographs. Bilingual edition. Cloth. $65 This handsome volume replete with color photographs presents a dozen castles, ...
Georg Jensen: A Tradition of Splendid Silver
Jan 01, 1997; ... *GEORG JENSEN: A Tradition of Splendid Silver by Janet Drucker Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997 312 pages. 737 color photos. Index. Cloth. $80. Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) was one of the most talented, original and influential silversmiths of ...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
Jan 01, 1997; ... The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings Edited by Peter Sawyer New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 298 pages. 150 illustrations. Color plates. 16 maps. Index. Cloth. $45 This extensively illustrated volume, with essays by 11 leading international ...
I was a Teenage Norwegian
Jan 01, 1997; ... I Was a Teenage Norwegian by Peter Dublin New York: Press-Tige Publishing, 1997 358 pages. Illustrated. Paper. $10.95 This novel is a coming-of-age story set in a small Norwegian town in the early 1960s Based on the author's true life experiences, the ...
Greta Garbo: A Life Apart
Jan 01, 1997; ... *GRETA GARBO: A Life Apart by Karen Swenson New York: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 1997 639 pages. B/W photos. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $32 Yet another effort to find the woman behind the myth, this volume sheds light on subjects that other Garbo biographies ...