Nete Schmidt

Nete Schmidt is a Faculty Associate in Scandinavian Studies, The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Areas of research include Women's Literature, Science Fiction, Crime Literature, and Hans Christian Andersen. For more information about Nete Schmidt click here.

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27 February 2019 - Nete Schmidt

Despite it not being the most popular genre within the Nordic countries, science fiction writers have produced a range of literature. These span from satirical predictions about humankind’s degeneration in Sam Lundwall’s Ace-books in Sweden in 1970s, to Aila Johanna Sinisalo’s award-winning portrayal of gender issues in Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi in Finland (2000), to Andri Snær Magnason’s Love Sta, a fusion of Monty-Python 'sand that of Douglas Adams' style. Audiences are sufficient to warrant the production of fanzines in nearly all the Nordic countries as well as other activities.

Nete Schmidt

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