Denmark wins the Eurovision Song Contest
Posted On Sunday, May 19, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Music in Denmark, News from Denmark, News from Sweden Tags: de Forest, Emmelie, Only Teardrops, Winner Eurovision 2012
According to the previous forecasts, the Danish singer Emmelie de Forest got the victory in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place yesterday in the Swedish city of Malmö. The candidate of Denmark received a total of 281 points being the clear winner of the night with her song "Only ...
Swedish brand Saab will manufacture cars in the Chinese city of Qingdao
Posted On Thursday, January 10, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Economy, Economy in Sweden, News from Sweden Tags: Saab in CHina, Saab in Qingdao
The current owner of Saab has announced that the company will manufacture both petrol vehicles as new energy vehicles in their new project that began Monday in eastern China in the city of Qingdao, Shandong Province. The project has cost around 1.6 billion dollars, and aims to achieve a better ...
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 ...
The Nordic countries Seek foreign metal engineers, naval and medical workers
Posted On Friday, November 30, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, News from Finland, News from Norway, News from Sweden, WORK, Work in Finland, Work in Norway, Work in Sweden Tags: Find Jobs in Finland, Find Jobs in Sweden, Jobs in Scandinavia, Metal engineers and doctors in Norway, Metal Engineers in Nordic countries, Norway Job search, Work in northern Europe, Work in Norway, Work in the Nordic Countries, working as a doctor in Norway
Eight European countries, including Norway, Sweden, Finland along with the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and the UK, are looking for workers from other countries in the fields of metal engineering, shipbuilding and medicine. The employment representatives of two Nordic companies and three firms of the Netherlands were present in the European ...
Nordic Actresses: Pernilla August
Posted On Thursday, November 8, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under News from Sweden, Nordic Art, Nordic Cinema, Swedish Cinema Tags: Pernilla August, Swedish actress
Pernilla August (before Pernilla Wallgren) is one of the most internationally recognized Swedish actresses. Also playwright and filmmaker, this veteran actress has just released in Sweden her latest film, "Callgirl" in which she worked under the direction of Mikael Marcimain.
August began her career with small roles in the seventies. Her ...
“The Hypnotist” by Lasse Hallström, Sweden’s Wager for the Oscar Awards
Posted On Monday, October 22, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, News from Sweden, Nordic Art, Nordic Cinema, NORDIC CULTURE, Swedish Cinema Tags: "The Hypnotist", Lasse Hallström, Swedish film for the Oscar, Swedish movie
In the month of September was released in Sweden, coinciding with its screening at the 60th International Film Festival of San Sebastian, "The Hypnotist", the latest film of the Swedish director Lasse Hallström, based on the bestselling novel of the same title by the writer Lars Kepler, pseudonym of the ...
Nordic Actors: Mikael Nyqvist
Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, News from Sweden, Nordic Art, Nordic Cinema, Swedish Cinema Tags: Michael Nyqvist, Millenium saga, Swedish actor
Mikael Nyqvist is one of Sweden's most international actors at the moment.
He became famous in Sweden for his role in the television series "Beck" in the nineties, playing afterwards several roles in Swedish films during the 2000s, including titles like "Together", "Earth of Angels" or the Finnish "Mother of Mine ...
New Swedish Cinema: “Easy Money 2” by Babak Najafi
Posted On Friday, September 28, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, News from Sweden, Nordic Art, Nordic Cinema, Swedish Cinema Tags: Babak Najafi, Daniel Espinosa, Easy Money 2, Jens Lapidus, Swedish films, Swedish movie
The past August was released in Sweden "Snabba Cash II", (Easy Money II) the sequel to the hit Swedish film "Snabba Cash" (Easy Money), directed by Daniel Espinosa in 2010.
With Espinosa and now as producer and under the direction of Swedish-Iranian Babak Najafi, "Snabba Cash II", like the first part, ...
Sweden is winner of Eurovision 2012
Posted On Monday, May 28, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Music in Sweden, News from Sweden Tags: Euphoria, Eurovision 2012 Sweden, Eurovision 2012 winnner, Loreen
The Swedish singer Loreen was proclaimed winner of the Eurovision song contest on Saturday 26 May in Baku, Azerbaijan with her song "Euphoria".
Lorine Zineb Noka, which is how the singer is called actually, took the win with a total of 372 points leaving behind the graceful Russian Buranovskiye Babushk- grandmothers, who got second place, and the representative of Serbia Zeljo Joksimovic who took the third place.
Of Moroccan origin, the Swedish singer's career began in 2004 in the television competition Idols in Sweden, after which she continued ...
The Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson’s debut novel harvesting huge international Success
Posted On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, News from Sweden, Nordic Art, Nordic Literature Tags: "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared", Jonas Jonasson, Nordic Books, Nordic literature, Nordic novel, Scandinavian books, Scandinavian literature, Swedish Author, Swedish books, Swedish novel
The Swedish writer and journalist Jonas Jonasson is having remarkable international success with his first novel "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through the Window and Disappeared".
Last week the novel went to number one on the in the Catalan language fiction list while holding the third place on the Spanish language fiction list. The book ...