Category: Books

Andy Meyer reviews the recently re-released English translation of the 1739 poem “The Trumpet of Nordland,” by Norwegian pastor and poet Petter Dass.

No Surrender is a new translation into English of Vi ga oss ikke (lWe didn’t surrender), a story told in 1945 by Norwegian resistance leader Hans Cappelen. 

Karin Fossum continues to deserve the title of Norway’s Queen of Crime. Her latest novel, The Whisperer, is a riveting read.

Our reviewer calls The Iron Chariot good but not a candidate for all-time best Thor A. Larsen Fishkill, N.Y. I have read many Norwegian mysteries, all written in the last 40 years. So when...

Book review: Beginner’s Norwegian by Laura Ziukaite-Hansen Margo Sorenson Mukilteo, Wash. Anyone wanting to learn Norwegian probably has a really good reason to do so—mostly involved with family and ancestry—because since most Norwegians are...

Book review: North by Northwestern Doug Warne KKNW Scandinavian Hour For some readers, the book North by Northwestern will be a chance to get behind the scenes of the popular TV Discovery series The...

The Norwegian American 2019 summer reading guide: Summer is a time for reading, and we hope you will enjoy our staff picks of fiction and non-fiction.

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...

The Adventures of Lily Huckleberry in Scandinavia is the first in a series of travel books by Audrey Smit & Jackie Knapp, with illustrations by Audrey Smit.

“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...