The Finnish writer Pirjo Hassinen has received the annual Finnish literary prize Savonia for her novel "Popula". The $ 10,000 prize is given annually to an outstanding novel from the Finnish Savo region, being this year’s edition the 24th. Fruit of the writer's indignation against the recent growth of the extreme right ...

When China announced earlier this month that it would use about 43 billion euros to reduce air pollution in 2015, the Danish authorities saw an opportunity to enter in action in order to do business with China. The Danish Trade Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr (Socialistisk Folkeparti), said that if China wants ...

The Swedish Court Princess Madeleine of Sweden and her fiance, American Chris O'Neill will get married in the Church of the Swedish King's castle on June 8, said the Swedish court in a press release yesterday, December 23. The first to announce this news was the Swedish newspaper Expressen, to whom ...

Two Finns and one Austrian were kidnapped yesterday Friday in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Apparently the kidnapped are a Finnish man who was studying Arabic at the University of Cales, Yemen, and his girlfriend who was only visiting the country. The Austrian Man is also a language student. According to the information ...

The Hollywood Film Academy, in charge of the Oscar Awards announced this morning the provisional list of nine films of which 5 will be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2013. Films of three Nordic countries remain in the race for the coveted Oscar statuette: Norway with "Kon-Tiki" ...

Elina Salo is a Finnish actress who has worked in film, theater and television in Finland for over 50 years. The veteran actress became known to international audiences in the films of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, with whom she has worked at least in six films, including "Le Havre", ...

Joulupukki, (Father Christmas or Santa Claus in Finnish) is the most emblematic Christmas figure of the Nordic countries an the whole world. Joulupukki proceeds from Finland, more exactly from Korvatunturi, a village whose location is unknown to all adventurous, as it is Santas’s secret place, where he spends the rest of ...

The film selected by the Norwegian Film Academy to be presented at this year’s Academy Awards is titles "Kon-Tiki" directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning. The film portrays the famous expedition of the Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl who crossed the Pacific Ocean to the Polynesian islands on ...

Noomi Rapace is one of the Swedish actresses with most international impact in the recent years. The actress became known for the miniseries converted into three movies based on the Millennium trilogy by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. Her character of Lisbeth Salander in the famous trilogy gave the spark to ...

The retired Danish historian Esben Brage says he has discovered, he believes, a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen that had been unknown until the moment. The historian said on Thursday he found the text of six pages in early October while conducting a search in the Danish National Archives ...