Summary in English: NolitchX is a literary project that aims to make visible the works of immigrant language authors residing in the Nordic countries. NolitchX creates networks of contacts and collaborations, produces multilingual literary events and coordinates translations and publications to find alternative ways for immigrant language writers to work professionally and to meet the […]

In the Nordic countries, the need for talking books in other languages than European languages has increased during the last few years. Due to the amount of refugees coming to the Nordic countries, a cooperation concerning the production of talking books in Arabic and Sámi languages started in 2015. The involved libraries are Celia in

Greenlandic multilingual culture and literature seems to be little known in the Nordic countries and that might be symptomatic of our distant relationship to our colonial past – but why not make up for it by reading a couple of new Greenlandic authors? Read more about Niviaq Korneliussens’s Homo Sapienne and Sørine Stenholdts Zombieland on the website of Nordic

Hur förstår vi varandra? När jag läser tidningar, ofta på nätet dessa dagar, är det slående hur ord och halva meningar plockas ur sina sammanhang för att tjäna som opinionsbildning. Och hur snabbt vi som läsare och lyssnare blivit nöjda med slagord och halva sanningar. Berättandekulturer där den som yttrar och den som tar emot

I want to remind the reader of two people in exile in 1930s and 1940s in Sweden. The first one is Kurt Tucholsky – who committed suicide as an outcome of serious depression when he was waiting for a decision from the Swedish migration authority. The other one is Bertolt Brecht who was in exile in

Summary in English: Nordic Region is so rich in languages The Nordic Council of Ministers has a vision of strengthening the understanding of Scandinavian languages to create contact, sense of community and mobility between people in the Nordic countries. More than 200 languages are nevertheless spoken in the Nordic countries, and many people are bilingual

Last year Culture for All Service published a report about the position of non-dominant language writers in the Nordic organizations that support literature. The question was whether writers who write in other than the dominant languages of the country could apply for the state grants for writers, for translation support and for the membership in the writers’

Regardless of the causes for the movement of people from one country to another during the past few decades, there have been hundreds of thousands of foreigners residing in every European country.  As a result, every European or Nordic country has become a multilingual society with increasing demand for access to books in foreign languages.

Multilingual Month, a month celebrating multilingualism and language diversity, will take place between February 21st, the International Mother Language Day, and March 21st, the World Poetry Day and the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The first Multilingual Month gathers organizations, people and events all over the Nordic countries. We warmly welcome all

Katarina Taikon (1932-1995) wrote books in Swedish for both adults and children and defended the rights of Romani community. After her times, language-specific support has contributed to the development of literature written in Romani language in Sweden. The state support structures of the Nordic Countries for literature written in minority languages vary considerably. How should the concept of equal opportunities be understood in