Iceland: Uncovering the past in Nordic Literature with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in finding out more about:Contemporary Icelandic literature to read in English translation;Currents in Icelandic and Nordic literature on rewriting the past;The exoticising of Iceland and the North; and,Nordic noir as a category in literature and film.Join the editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe on her fourth virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region. Gunnþórunn and Nicola spoke on 24th February 2021 when they were frequently interrupted by earthquakes.The 5th in the series is with  Lill-Ann Körber, Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University in Denmark about Nordic postcolonialism, amongst other things.Find out more on nordics.info. Sound credits : freesound.org.  Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Listen to researchers talk about the history, society and culture of the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the autonomous territories, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Åland). Mainly interviews and panel discussions, but also synopses of particular historical events and topics within the humanities and social sciences written by researchers and read out in one of the Nordic languages as well as English.