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 July 11, we’ll be discussing Evil Flowers by award-winning Norwegian writer Gunnhild Øyehaug (Present Tense Machine), who recently discussed the book with us in a virtual talk […]

Join us on July 12 for a book talk with Norwegian author Victoria Kielland on My Men, a fictional account of one broken woman’s descent into inescapable madness, out on June 27 from Astra Publishing House! Kielland will discuss her novel, which is based on the true story of Norwegian maid turned Midwestern farmwife Belle Gunness, the first […]

This summer at Scandinavia House, see the critically acclaimed Nordic films that inspired American remakes in the series “The Nordics Do It Better”! You’ve seen the Hollywood version — but did you know how good the original was? On July 11, see 2018 Danish crime thriller The Guilty /Den Skyldige (dir. Gustav Möller, Denmark, 2018), which was […]