Previous issues

Nordic Literature 2002
This edition focuses on The Nordic Council's Literary Awards, which are apparently a lot more radical than their reputation. Another major topic is the sometimes all too "bookish" relationship between literature and the cinema.
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Nordic Literature 2001
This issue features the Scandinavian crime novel, where the importance is stressed of not neglecting suspense in favour of social portrayal.
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Nordic Literature 2000
This year several writers have focused on a Nordic community; this community existed one hundred years ago, however, the countries seem to have developed in separate directions since then. The question is whether a return to a collective Nordic literary forum is a possibility? Perhaps already on the way?
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Nordic Literature 1999
This year's issue features a number of essays about the period 1993-1999, "Seven years in the Nordic countries". Nordic Literature 1999 also takes a modern look at authors from the turn of last century: August Strindberg, Georg Brandes, Ellen Key, Knut Hamsun. And last but not least: it reviews books from 1998, with a focus on the work of Pia Tafdrup, winner of the Nordic Councils's Literature Prize.
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Nordic Literature 1998
The sixth issue of Nordic Literature features the comments of four Nordic authors' to Dag Solstad's article about "the problem of the message". It also presents this year's winner of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, Tua Forsström.
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Nordic Literature 1997
This issue is especially devoted to Scandinavia's fascination with Jerusalem, which last year alone produced a wealth of writings that can be summarized under the title "Jerusalem in the North".
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