Scandinavian Studies
Web: Literature
[General Resources] [Denmark]
[Finland] [Iceland]
[Norway] [Sweden]
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General Resources
Electronic Text
Collections in Western European Literature (WESS) - with sections
for each country. Most texts are freely available on the web.
Project Runeberg
(LYSATOR at Linköping University, Sweden) - the largest Nordic literature
site on the web. Numerous literary texts online, as well as a great deal
of information about Nordic literature.
Database of Nordic Neo-Latin
Literature (University of Bergen, Norway) - a database of Neo-Latin
printed books from or about the Nordic countries.
Scandinavian
Studies Web: Newspapers and Other News Sources (WESS) - many
newspapers have culture pages with literature sections.
For literary prizes see each country section below.
Aurora Boreal
- a website devoted to Scandinavian culture, with emphasis on literature
and aimed at Spanish readers. Most information is in Spanish.
Denmark
BogGuide - from the Danish
publishers' association, in Danish. Includes publisher links, bookstore
search form, news from the book trade, and an online book cafe. The search
form for bookstore street addresses allows you to search by bookstore name
or search for bookstores in an area by street , town, or zip code. The
news archive has a search engine as well. Very slow loading pages.
Literary Prizes
(BogGuide Denmark) - lists winners of literary prizes, mostly in Denmark
but also including the Nobel Prize for Literature, from the year the prize
was founded to the present. Most recent year might not be included.
The Danish
Literature Information Centre - an institution dedicated to promoting
Danish literature, including works in translation.
Danish
Author Profiles on the Internet (Kulturnet/Danish Literature Information
Centre and several other sponsors) - the "first bilingual introduction
to Danish authors on the Internet" currently features 19 Danish authors.
In addition to brief biographical sketches, the profiles include articles,
bibliographies, excerpts and translations, and contemporaneous reviews.
Finland
Finlandia prizewinners
More literary
prizes
Iceland
SagaNet (The
National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University, with
the Árni Magnússon Institute) - a cooperative project of
large scale digitalization of 380.000 manuscript pages and 145.000 printed
pages.
Reykjavík
City Library Literature 2000: Author Presentations - an introduction
to a few Icelandic authors such as Einar Már Guðmundsson, Guðbergur
Bergsson, Guðrún Helgadóttir, Gyrðir Elíasson,
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, and Vigdís Grímsdóttir.
The site includes biographical summaries, exerpts from major works, reviews,
and bibliographies in Icelandic and English.
Modern
Icelandic Fiction: A bibliography of Translations into European languages
- a selected list of translations of modern Icelandic fiction into Danish,
Faroese, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English,
Estonian, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.The list is mainly intended
to be of use to libraries who wish to improve their collection of translations
of modern Icelandic fiction but should also be useful to anyone interested
in that field.
Jónas
Hallgrímsson, Selected Poetry and Prose (The University
of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System) - works by the most important
and influential modern Icelandic poet, translated and edited by Professor
Dick Ringler of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Departments of English
and Scandinavian Studies.
Norway
Boknett (Forlagsentralen)
English
Translations of Norwegian Children's Books (Scandinavian Studies
Web/Capital Children's Museum) - a bibliography for "Trolls, Mrs. Pepperpot
and Beyond: Celebrating Norwegian Children's Books," a traveling exhibit
by Capital Children's Museum, Washington, D.C.
Forfattere
(Dagbladet) - brief biographies, photos, bibliographies, and prizes awarded.
Ibsen senteret
(Universitetet i Oslo) - includes biographical and other information, as
well as the international Ibsen bibliography (Den internasjonale Ibsen-bibliografien),
with English pages.
Norla
- Norwegian Literature Abroad. NORLA is a government-funded, non-commercial
foundation which provides information on Norwegian literature and Norwegian
authors of fiction.
Sweden
Litterära sällskap
i Sverige (Svensk Bokhandel) - basic information, including history,
publications, and prizes. Brief biographical sketches of authors are also
included.
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