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 ...

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 ...

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 ...