Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. On September 12, we’ll be discussing Martin A. Hansen’s The Liar, one of the greatest works of modern Scandinavian fiction, out now in new translation by […]
This fall at Scandinavia House, experience Nordic comedy at its darkest with “Svart Humor”! “If there’s a dead body in Denmark, someone is going to make a joke about it,” director Anders Jensen once said; Nordic comedies are as known for their deadpan, dry wit as for their occasionally noir subject matter, celebrating the “svart/sort” (dark) […]
“A poignant and achingly moving tale of love and loss” — see Finnish filmmaker Klaus Härö’s My Sailor, My Love.