Literature from Nordic countries

[snakeling]

I've been on a Nordic literature streak, lately, and I'm looking for more authors/books. :)

I'm especially interested in literature from Denmark and Iceland, but Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish literatures are welcome too. Only books that have been translated to English and/or French, though, because I can't read anything else.

Please tell me a few words about the book/author you recommend, and why you loved it (or why you hated it; I'm also taking anti-recs *g*).

Comments

[st_aurafina]

You might want to check out kattahj - she recs a lot of Swedish young adult fiction.

I loved Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. There's a movie based on the book, which is good, but vastly different to the novel.

[kathmandu]

I read that under the title Smilla's Sense of Snow. I strongly disliked it because the ending is far less resolved than the beginning, and i feel that stories ought to work the other way around.