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

Re: off the top of my head...

[anotherdream]

I second Sinisalo. She's one of our leading scifi/speculative fiction writers, and damn good at it. Not Before Sundown won the Finlandia prize (just about the most valued literature prize in Finland), and it was her first full-length novel to boot. The American English translation is titled Troll: A Love Story, IIRC. At this time I don't believe the rest of her writing has been translated, though she was editor for an English-language anthology of Finnish scifi/fantasy a few years back.

Re: off the top of my head...

[rhoda]

Ah right, they changed the title. Sorry! :)

Re: off the top of my head...

[anotherdream]

Technically, no. There are two English translations: one for the UK, one for the US. AFAIK they are entirely different translations, by different publishers, so they also have different names. (The US one, incidentally, is ridiculous.)