📖 Reading "Henrik Falk" by Vigdis Hjorth — a darkly satirical take on Ibsen’s "Hedda Gabler". 💥

Stock market crashes, gas station in-laws, and an ex who's a controversial artist ... What makes a life “big”?

#HenrikFalk #VigdisHjorth #HeddaGabler #NorwegianLit #WhatIsABigLife #NowReading 📚

📖 Reading "Haugtussa" by Arne Garborg – with powerful art by Håkon Bleken! 🎨
Veslemøy sees hidden forces in nature & the soul 🌫️
Mystic, wild, and beautiful. Grieg even set 12 poems to music! 🎶
#Haugtussa #Garborg #Bleken #Folklore #NorwegianLit #Grieg #BookLove #Tromsø

The space between who you are and the role you play: Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg If one could paraphrase Tolstoy’s famed opening line of Anna Karenina within the context of just one aspect of the family dynamic, the bond between mothers and daughters, one might suggest that all…

The space between who you are and the role you play: Near Distance by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated by Wendy H Gabrielsen @biblioasis.bsky.social #NorwegianLit
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First BS and it’s a good one!

BBC World Book Cafe in Olso. @octaviabright_ gets to know the Norwegian books world through it's writers Maja Lunde, Zeshan Shakar, Gunnhild Øyehaug and Oliver Lovrenski. To come along register here.litteraturhuset.no/en/arrangement…
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