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Meet the Author with Monika Fagerholm

Monika Fagerholm

Monika Fagerholm (1961) is one of the most distinguished Finnish-Swedish authors. She has been described as an innovator of the Swedish language and a groundbreaking, style-forming author. Fagerholm is also known, beyond her authorship, as an active public debater and a mentor for new authors. Fagerholm made her debut with the short story collection Sham […]

The Nordic House’ book circle

Are you curious about Nordic literature, but don’t know where to start? The Nordic House is hosting a book circle in the most beautiful library in Reykjavík where we discuss current Nordic literature. The book circle will be hosted by Sunna Dís Másdóttir, literary critic and a member of the Icelandic selection committee for the […]

Interruptions

Sigridur Hagalín and Andri Snær

The 10th of February, the Nordic House is hosting a literary event where authors discuss and dissect literature as a disruptive force, and how collisions with new words and ideas can send our thoughts down new and unexpected paths. We tend to see interruptions as negative, breaking our focus and disrupting the order we are […]

Sami Movie Night

Still from the movie My Mother's Secret

In collaboration with the Norwegian embassy in Iceland, the Nordic house will screen two Sami films on the Sami national day, Saturday 6th of February. 16:45 Min mors hemmelighet / My mothers secret 18:00 Veiviseren / Ofelas / Pathfinder The event is free of charge. 20 seats available each screening for adults. Children born 2005 […]

Til min søster

Novel (Danish) Dy Plambeck: Til min søster, 2019 A novel about being a woman and being seen and understood – or not. Historian Aya is abandoned by her boyfriend and gives birth to her daughter as she researches a well-known late author’s childhood sweetheart and tries to see and understand her role for his authorship […]

Virtual Visits

A Guided Visual Tour The Nordic House: A Total Work of Art A guided visual tour of the history, architecture, and culture Manuscript: Guðni TómassonEnglish Voice Over Bjartmar ÞórðarsonDirector: Kristbjörg Kona KristjánsdóttirDirector of Photography and Editor: Blair Alexander MassieProduced by The Nordic House in Reykjavik

HHV, FRSHWN Dødsknaldet i Amazonas

HHV, FRSHWN Dødsknaldet i Amazonas

Novel (Danish) Hanne Højgaard Viemose: HHV, FRSHWN Dødsknaldet i Amazonas, 2019 A fragmentary and wild novel about Danish Hanne’s experiences, thoughts and a troubled mind in respectively Denmark, the Amazons and Iceland, about her life with the occasionally psychotic Icelandic ex-husband and their amazingly inventive children, about her rough young adult experiences with love in […]

Nordic Film Focus 2021: Lene Berg

As part of the Reykjavik Feminist Film Festival we feature Lene Berg in our Nordic Film Focus 2021. LENE BERG Lene Berg is a Norwegian artist and filmmaker originally trained as a film director at Stockholm’s Dramatiska Institutet. Her work includes installations, performance, film, photography, and text-based works, and she often draws her inspiration from […]

No Woman Alone – Online Panel

RVK Feminist Film Festival presents ‘No Woman Alone’ FREE event – Held in ENGLISH 16th of January 2021 13:00 – 14:30 Hosted at the Nordic House, streaming ONLINE – available on RVK FFF Vlog following the event Hosting an online festival has enabled RVK FFF 2021 to create a space for all to partake in. […]

Tyverier

Thomas Korsgaard: Tyverier

Short stories (Danish) Thomas Korsgaard: Tyverier, 2019 15 short stories about secrecy, loneliness, and hope seen in the eyes of different people, for example about having their past revealed in front of a post office worker, about fleeing a family lunch after the truth has been revealed, about trying to sell insurance to a dying, […]

Sort is

Helene Uri: Sort is

Crime novel (Norwegian, translated into Danish) Helene Uri: Sort is, 2019 Read a captivating story of a home confined elderly couple – locked in because the winter cold has made it dangerous to go out on the slippery black iced sidewalks, but also locked inside a marriage where an intense drama lurks just below the […]

WEALTH OF THE NORTH – 7. episode.

The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.

WEALTH OF THE NORTH– 6. episode

The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.    All episodes available here

Mørkeland

Crime novel (Danish) Niels Krause-Kjær: Mørkeland, 2019 Just before the parliamentary elections, this political crime novel takes the life of a government clerk. An elderly, experienced journalist and newly-educated young trainee are on the verge of extensive fraud committed by a secret circle of politicians and government officials who see themselves as the resistance movement […]

WINTER WORKS with Rosa Liksom

Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? For Rosa Liksom, winter is absent and hasn’t shown itself […]

WINTER WORKS – Fourth Sunday of Advent with Sami Said

Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something?   For Sami Said, there is a snowstorm brewing in […]

WINTER WORKS – Third Sunday of Advent with Suzanne Brøgger

Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something?   Winter Works will be available on the Nordic House’ […]

WINTER WORKS – Second Sunday of Advent with Tomas Espedal

Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? The reading is in Norwegian. Through three excerpts that move […]

WEALTH OF THE NORTH – 4. episode

The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.

The Nordic House Christmas program

This year, the Nordic House offers you a digital Christmas program for the holidays with a literary advent calendar and a visual guided tour of the house, its architect, culture, and history.  Our culture show, Auður Norðursins (the richness of the Nordics) will continue to be broadcasted on Wednesdays, and the exhibition UNDERNEATH will be open […]

WINTER WORKS – first day of advent with Einar Már Guðmundsson

Winter Works is a literary advent calendar from the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Five Nordic writers from Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland interpret winter and read from their homes. How does winter work? Does it hurt? Does it bring joy? Does it touch something? Einar Már describes an Icelandic winter, where magic sleeps and […]

En lykkelig slutning

Maren Uthag: En lykkelig slutning

Novel (Danish) Maren Uthag: En lykkelig slutning, 2019 A truly different family chronicle of the work of seven generations of undertakers, one undertaker more special than the other. Nicholas loves corpses but knows that it is socially and culturally unacceptable. Looking back on his family history, each generation’s bizarre tendencies unfold in the face of […]

WEALTH OF THE NORTH – 2. episode

The Nordic culture talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.

False Belief

  False Belief is the love story of a couple caught up in the gentrification of a neighborhood that is wiping out a seminal African-American cultural legacy and displacing its original residents. In 2008 Norwegian artist and filmmaker Lene Berg moved in with her partner, a black New York publisher, who will be referred to as […]

WEALTH OF THE NORTH – 3. episode

The nordic cultural talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.

WEALTH OF THE NORTH – 1. episode

The Nordic culture talk show nobody is waiting for Auður & Arnbjörg dissect current affairs and historic events in an Icelandic pan-Nordic universal context accompanied by relatively good guests. From the Nordic House Reykjavík. Mostly in Icelandic with no subtitles.

Choosing Green – post-corona green recovery in the lead up to COP26

This year was supposed to be the year of climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has turned everything upside down and the climate negotiations at COP26 have been postponed. While large gatherings are not a possibility, we in the Nordic Co-operation find the work too important to put on hold and are thus continuing the path […]

Fruen

Memoir novel (Danish) Malene Lei Raben: Fruen, 2019 How to live a life when as a child you loved your strong and freedom-seeking mother through the youth rebellion in the 1970s, then as a young woman you are left in the throes of the same ambitious, troublesome and egocentric mother who clearly shows that she […]

False Belief + Q&A

Friday, 20 November the Nordic House invites you to an online screening of the movie False Belief followed by a Q&A with the director Lene Berg and co-star Delano. Discussions start at 16:50 and they will be conducted in English. To comment go to Livestream False Belief is the love story of a couple caught […]

The Egg – an interactive children exhibition

Welcome to The Egg!   The Egg (Ägget) is an interactive children´s exhibition based on the picture book by the same name – written by Sanna Sofia Vuori and illustrated by Linda Bondestam.   Delve into Sanna’s and Linda’s universe and follow the mouse Brie and his friends (on a unique adventure!) Join them as they look […]

Nora

Merete Pryds Helle: Nora

Novel (Danish) Merete Pryds Helle: Nora, 2019 The novel is one of three Nordic reinterpretations of Henrik Ibsen’s plays – here a reinterpretation of Et dukkehjem (1879). The young and in love woman, Nora breaks up from her father’s house and marries Torvald, gives birth to a child and submits to the increasing depression of […]

Icelandic Arctic Talks II: Iceland, an integrated part of the Arctic: ± 50 years

 Icelandic Arctic Talks II The Centre for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network and the West Nordic Council in collaboration with the Nordic House, the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Circle have organized a series of online discussions, taking place in the fall of […]

You Superwoman

An online event organized by two organizations, Young Professional Women in Iceland and Hugrún, an organization for mental health education. The topic of the event is “Superwoman”. What does this term include? Where does the external pressure that many women feel to excel in all aspects of their life simultaneously; career, exercise, family, household chores, […]