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Agnes Henningsen
Agnes Henningsen (1868–1962) was a Danish author whose candid novels and eight-volume memoirs defended women's erotic freedom, making her both famous and notorious in her time.
Agnes von Krusenstjerna
Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940) was a Swedish novelist whose openly erotic depictions of women's lives triggered a national controversy, best known for the seven-volume saga Fröknarna von Pahlen.
Aksel Sandemose
Aksel Sandemose, born Axel Nielsen (1899–1965), was a Danish-Norwegian novelist who moved to Norway in 1930 and formulated the Jante Law in his 1933 breakthrough novel.
Carl Erik Soya
Carl Erik Soya (1896–1983) was a Danish writer of satirical novels, plays, and screenplays, a radical renewer of Danish drama best known through film adaptations of his work.
Cora Sandel
Cora Sandel, pen name of Sara Fabricius (1880–1974), was a Norwegian writer and painter best known for the semi-autobiographical Alberte trilogy about a woman's path to becoming a writer.
Elin Wägner
Elin Wägner (1882–1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and social critic who campaigned for women's suffrage, peace, and the environment, becoming the second woman elected to the Swedish Academy after Selma Lagerlöf.
Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson, born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson, was a Swedish novelist and member of the Swedish Academy who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) was a Finnish writer who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature for portraying his country's peasantry, with novels including Hurskas kurjuus.
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson (1895–1972), was a Swedish author and lawyer whose humorous stories set in Skåne made him one of Sweden's most popular storytellers.
Gösta Carlberg
Gösta Carlberg (1909–1973) was a Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist whose debut novel won Bonniers' 15,000-kronor jubilee prize, and who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1940.
Guðmundur G. Hagalín
Guðmundur G. Hagalín was an Icelandic novelist and librarian best known for novels of rural life in western Iceland, above all Kristrún í Hamravík (1933).
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975) was an Icelandic novelist and short-story writer who wrote mostly in Danish while living in Denmark, winning European acclaim and becoming Iceland's best-selling author abroad.
H. C. Branner
H. C. Branner, full name Hans Christian Branner, was a Danish writer (1903–1966) known for psychologically probing novels and for raising the radio play to a serious art form.
Hans E. Kinck
Hans E. Kinck (Hans Ernst Kinck, 1865–1926) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist who renewed Norwegian prose through dialect and psychological fiction.
Hans Scherfig
Hans Scherfig (Hans Christian Scherfig, 1905–1979) was a Danish writer, painter, and communist known for satirical novels like Det forsømte forår and naivist jungle paintings.
Hjalmar Bergman
Hjalmar Bergman (1883–1931) was a Swedish novelist and dramatist whose fiction centers on the fictional town of Wadköping; his best-known novel is Markurells i Wadköping (1919).
Hjalmar Söderberg
Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and translator regarded as a major early twentieth-century Swedish author, best known for Doktor Glas and his portraits of Stockholm.
Jan Fridegård
Jan Fridegård (1897–1968) was a Swedish novelist and poet of proletarian literature, known for the autobiographical Lars Hård series and a Viking Age trilogy told from a slave's view.
Johan Bojer
Johan Bojer (1872–1959) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright whose epic portrayals of ordinary people made him internationally popular in the 1920s, on par with Norway's Nobel laureates.
Johan Falkberget
Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) was a Norwegian novelist and former miner whose Røros mining novels, including Den fjerde nattevakt and Nattens brød, made him a major 20th-century author.
Johannes Linnankoski
Johannes Linnankoski, pen name of Vihtori Peltonen (1869–1913), was a Finnish author whose 1905 novel Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta became the first Finnish bestseller; he also founded the newspaper Uusimaa.
Johannes V. Jensen
Johannes V. Jensen was a Danish author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944, best known for Kongens Fald and the evolutionary cycle Den lange Rejse.
Karin Michaëlis
Karin Michaëlis, born Katharina Marie Bech Brøndum (1872 to 1950), was a Danish author and humanitarian whose scandal-novel The Dangerous Age made her world-famous in 1910.
Knuth Becker
Knuth Becker (1891–1974) was a Danish novelist and poet whose nine-volume partly autobiographical cycle about Kai Gøtsche, published 1932–1956, is the largest of its kind in Danish literature.
Kristmann Guðmundsson
Kristmann Guðmundsson (1901–1983) was an Icelandic novelist and poet who lived in Norway from 1924 to 1938, wrote more than thirty novels, and became the second most translated Icelandic author after Halldór Laxness.
Lars Ahlin
Lars Ahlin (1915–1997) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, ranked among the leading Swedish novelists of the twentieth century; he debuted with Tåbb med manifestet in 1943.
Maila Talvio
Maila Talvio, born Maria Winter and married name Mikkola, was a Finnish novelist and translator whose Helsinki historical trilogy Itämeren tytär (1929–1936) developed the Finnish historical novel.
Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954) was a Danish proletarian novelist and communist whose Pelle the Conqueror became the second most widely distributed Danish literary work after H.C. Andersen.
Mika Waltari
Mika Waltari (1908–1979) was a Finnish author whose historical novel The Egyptian (1945), set in ancient Egypt, became the highest-selling Finnish novel worldwide and was filmed in 1954.
Moa Martinson
Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swartz (1890–1964), was a Swedish author and journalist of working-class women's lives, best known for the autobiographical Mia trilogy beginning with Mor gifter sig (1936).