Through the Louis Janus Book Subvention Award, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study supports the publication of significant new scholarship and translations in Scandinavian studies. The books below represent recent projects made possible through this program.
I Talk About It All the Time: A Memoir
Camara Lundestad Joof
Translated by Olivia Noble Gunn
University of Wisconsin Press, 2024
Visions and Victims: Art Melodrama in the Films of Carl Th. Dreyer
Amanda Doxtater
Translated by Olivia Noble Gunn
University of Wisconsin Press, 2024
The Not-Quite Child: Colonial Histories, Radicalization, and Swedish Exceptionalism
Liina-Ly Roos
Translated by Olivia Noble Gunn
University of Washington Press, 2025
Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy
Pelle Dragsted
Translated by William Banks
University of Wisconsin Press, 2025
The Death of Kjartan Ólafsson: One Text, Two Remarkable Women, and a Very Long Journey
Jay L. LaLonde
Translated by Olivia Noble Gunn
University of Wisconsin Press, Forthcoming
Odd Nansen: Arvtageren
Anne Ellingsen
Translated by David M. Smith
University of Washington Press, Forthcoming