Scandinavian Fiction Podcast
Episodes
Helle Helle: ‘When I wrote this book, I started hating the past tense’
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
‘Later she goes over the fields with a cauliflower. Goodbye to those Kong Fu slippers. All roads lead to roads. She carries on into Vestergade, past...
Solvej Balle: ‘It's like having a patient on the operating table, you can't just leave them’
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'It is the eighteenth of November. I have got used to that thought.'Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume is a work of seven books a...
Elin Cullhed: ‘Writing my novel was like having a secret garden that was all mine’
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Swedish author Elin Cullhed has written a novel based on the life of the American author and poet Sylvia Plath, with whom she has always felt a pa...
Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi: 'My writing is hidden in pockets of time'
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with the author Johanne Lykke Naderehvandi in her home in Malmö, Sweden, for a conversation about her novel Strega, working under time re...
Ursula Scavenius: ‘Interruptions made my writing more honest’
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Danish author Ursula Scavenius needs to escape distractions at home, she boards a train bound for Hornbæk Plantage, north of Copenhagen, to ...
Vigdis Hjorth: ‘To hope and be rejected is painful’ (2:2)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Family dynamics is a key theme in Vigdis Hjorth's novels. Join us for the second part of our conversation with the prize-winning Norwegian author,...
Vigdis Hjorth: ‘I have a kind of self-conversation’ (1:2)
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Through her work, Vigdis Hjorth has ‘a kind of self-conversation’. In this first part of our interview with the prize-winning Norwegian author, we...