Authorship Quote by Lars Saabye Christensen

“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall”

— Stieg Larsson

“Is there a Swedish Modernism?”

— Cecilia Widenheim

Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This…

— Camilla Lackberg

“Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them. We assume they are more or less…

— Michael Lewis

“The backbone of western civilization is racially Nordic, the Alpines and Mediterraneans being effective precisely to the extent in which they have been Nordicized…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“There was the biography of a Norwegian resistance fighter who swam through chilly oceans and got gangrene and wandered through I think it might…

— William T. Vollmann

I don't know whether it's a Nordic thing, but men in Iceland are very locked-up, very quiet. They hardly ever express emotion.

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

“I am connected with the people who go abroad, to Sweden, there where people have an attitude.”

— Petra Hermans

“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb”

— Jo Nesbø

“Sometimes 'Stockholm' can actually be a compliment: a dream of somewhere bigger, where we can become someone else. Something that we long for but…

— Fredrik Backman

“I could see the two of us in the round mirror on the wall, our long hair down, our blue eyes. Norsewomen. When I…

— Janet Fitch

“Also, Swedes are often reluctant to express strong emotions, including anger or disapproval, a theme that emerges in many areas of Swedish culture. An…

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz