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Nordic novelists

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Olav Duun

Olav Duun (1876–1939) was a Norwegian novelist and teacher, ranked among Norway's foremost, best known for the six-volume Juvikfolke cycle (1918–1923) and the Medmenneske trilogy (1929–1933).

Oskar Braaten

Oskar Braaten (full name Oskar Alexander Braaten, 1881–1939) was a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and magazine editor who depicted factory life on the east side of Kristiania, now Oslo.

Oskar Luts

Oskar Luts was an Estonian prose writer and playwright, sometimes called the Estonian Dickens, whose novel Kevade (Spring, 1912–1913) remains a core text of Estonian culture.

Per Hallström

Per Hallström (1866–1960) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, and translator, remembered as the greatest name in the Swedish short story and a key figure behind the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Sally Salminen

Sally Salminen (1906–1976) was a Finland-Swedish writer from Vårdö in the Åland Islands whose debut novel Katrina (1936), written while she worked as a maid in New York, sold 53,000 copies.

Sigfrid Siwertz

Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) was a Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright best known for Selambs (1920) and Mälarpirater (1911), serving in the Swedish Academy from 1932.

Sven Delblanc

Sven Delblanc (1931–1992) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and literary historian, known for the Hedeby and Samuel cycles and winner of the 1982 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Thit Jensen

Thit Jensen, full name Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen (1876–1957), was a Danish novelist and lecturer, sister of Johannes V. Jensen, known for novels about women's lives and campaigns for contraception.

Tom Kristensen

Tom Kristensen (1893–1974) was a Danish author and literary critic, a leading interwar figure best known for the novel Hærværk (1930) and decades as Politiken's chief reviewer.