Summer reading guide 2019: staff picks
Need a book? Look no further: here are the 2019 summer reading guide recommendations from The Norwegian American staff! The Ice Laline Paull The Ice an eco-thriller set in Svalbard’s near future, asks what...
Category: Books
Sámi folktales now available in English
By the fire Jim Dietz-Kilen Des Moines, Iowa By the Fire is a compilation of Sámi stories collected by Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt and her husband, Dr. Gedmund Hatt, in the...
A Huckleberry good adventure story
Book review Cynthia Elyce Rubin The Norwegian American Lily lives in a village where “flowers grow as big as trees.” Here she meets Freia, who celebrates midsummer by wearing a flower crown, eating strawberry...
Occupied tells a long-held wartime secret
“Sit with me…” Rosalie Grosch Arden Hills, Minn. “Age and perspective greatly influence how people remember things, and everyone’s parents tell embellished stories,” writes author Kurt Blorstad in the opening pages of his recent...
Barbara Sjoholm interviews Helene Uri
Languages, histories & parents: Barbara Sjoholm Port Townsend, Wash. As the translator of Clearing Out, I’m delighted to introduce the Norwegian author Helene Uri and her marvelously written and moving novel to a North...
Yell with Ronia
Book review Eric Stavney Mukilteo, Wash. Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter is a charming coming-of-age story written in 1981, 36 years after Astrid Lindgren launched her popular Pippi Longstocking books. Ronia is born to a...
Siri Hustvedt: Gazing back at men
Book review M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway In Western thought, there’s a longstanding gap between the world of the humanities and that of the sciences. British scientist and novelist C.P. Snow saw that gap...
Staalesen still wows
Book review Thor A. Larsen Fishkill, N.Y. Gunnar Staalesen has been writing crime novels for more than 40 years. Private detective Varg Veum, protagonist of his first crime novel, is back in Big Sister....
The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn
Book review Thor A. Larsen Fishkill, N.Y. Agnes Ravatn is a new Norwegian novelist for me and after reading her first novel translated into English, I look forward to future works by this up...
Badda’s Buddy
Book review Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Lois Tonnessen Andersen is a visual artist living in Concord, Mass. She works in a variety of media and most recently self-published a children’s book. The book, which...
