The Arts

Approaches to this supposedly apolitical, European cultural event can shed light on alliances and deep-seated conflicts the world over.

The efforts of pioneering women writers gained momentum during this well known literary movement.

Faroese literature has almost two hundred years behind it, and despite a limited number of inhabitants, authors and publications, a multitude of…

Spanish readers are attracted to contemporary Norwegian literature by the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, the unadorned prose, and the…

An overview of perspectives on the epic poem.

Elias Lönnrot was a philologist and a collector of Finnic-Karelian traditional poetry, which he compiled in order to create the Kalevala.

How the Nordics and Denmark are perceived in Spain is influenced by the existing connections between the countries, including Viking history, joint…

Listen to an interview with Director of Nuuk Art Museum Nivi Christensen and learn about two key Greenlandic artists and how they have informed her…

Jan Troell is a Swedish film director and cinematographer who also made a number of internationally successful films, such as 'The Flight of an Eagle'…

The Swedish documentary filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff was born in Stockholm in 1917. Sucksdorff is the most important documentarist in Swedish film, and…