Victoria Middleton of U.S. State Department visits Scandinavian Department

Middleton has been the Director of the Office of Nordic and Baltic Affairs in the European Bureau at the Department of State since September 2006.  Prior to that, she served in Helsinki, Prague, and Tallinn. She will make two presentations in the Department on February 15, 2007 entitled: "A View from the State Department" and "The Best of Friends: US-Baltic relations today."

Sweden's Desperate Hunt for Diversity

Marjaneh Bakhtiari
Author and Critic
Friday, December 8th at 4:30 PM in Communications 202

From the courtyards of multiracial housing projects to the backseats of immigrant-driven taxis, never have Swedish journalists been more eager to depict their nation's new demographic reality. But what assumptions about religion, culture and language lie hidden behind this newfound obsession with multiculturalism?

Bakhtiari's debut novel, Kalla det vad van du vill (Call It Whatever You Like), chronicles the lives of two Malmö families, Irandoust and Sundén, who meet when their two teenagers begin dating.  In scenes alternately absurd and touching, Bakhtiari shines the spotlight on both "new" and "old" Swedes alike.

Swedish-language radio journalism by Bakhtiari: • Critique of "Mohammeds Taxi", a TV program about integration • Analysis of state radio's outreach efforts in Rosengård

The Sami in Norway:
Cultural and Political Revitalization, 1970-2000

Bård Berg
Visiting Fulbright Professor (University of Tromsø)
Friday, November 17th at 12:30 PM in Raitt 314

Sweden and Europe and the Era of Globalization:
How are Europe and Sweden Performing?

Gunnar Lund
Swedish Ambassador to the United States
Friday, November 3rd at 9:30 AM in Thomson 101

Ambassador Lund will speak in Christine Ingebritsen's International Political Economy course.

Coercive Diplomacy: Theory and Practice

Peter Viggo Jakobsen
Visiting Scholar, MIT; Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen

Kristin Bakke, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science, will serve as discussant.

Friday, October 13, 2006, at 12:00 in Smith 40A

Graduation 2006

Receiving their Degrees: (l-r) Mark Safstrom (MA), Anne Toft Vestegaard (MA), Margareta Dancus (MA), Kevin Karlin (Ph.D), Gergana May (Ph.D), Professor Marianne Stecher-Hansen at the microphone. Not pictured: Eric Sundholm (MA) and Mia Spangenberg (MA)

At its annual graduation ceremony on June 9, the Department bestowed two Doctorates, three Advancements to Candidacy, five Masters Degrees and twenty-four Bachelors Degrees. The Department also awarded over $20,000 in scholarships to students in Scandinavian and Baltic studies. Full list of graduates.

Heidi von Born visits Swedish Class at UW

Prize-winning Swedish author Heidi von Born visited the Department of Scadinavian Studies and Ia Dübois' second-year Swedish class on May 11th, giving an overview of books recently published in Sweden.

Department Alumna's Translation Wins LA Times Book Prize

2003 graduate Tara Chace's translation of Per Nilsson's You & You & You from the Swedish has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Current Challenges and Future Prospects in the Arctic

Olav Orheim
Senior Advisor for the Ministry of Environment, Norway
May 11, 2006 Thomson 235 1:30 pm

During the Cold War, the Arctic was a stable area of little or no multilateral cooperation. The demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of oil prices have changed the dynamics considerably. The Arctic is now a major oil and gas province (USGS estimates that 25% of the global total of oil is in the Arctic). It is also a little-disturbed area, now undergoing faster climate change than the rest of the world. Orheim's talk will examine the new opportunities and challenges for industry and nation states posed by the Arctic region.

Danish major Sean Hughes wins Goldwater Scholarship

The Goldwater Scholarship Program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Four UW students have been selected for the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Awards, including Danish major Sean Hughes (second from right, above.) The 2006 Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by colleges and universities nationwide.

Praise for Nunnally's Translation of Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter

Article from the Royal Norwegian Embassy about Affiliate Faculty member Tiina Nunnally's new translation of the Norwegian author Sigrid Undset's trilogy: Translation of Undset's "Kristin Lavransdatter" Trilogy Gets Much-Needed Face Lift

The Evolution of the Modern State

Sven Steinmo
University of Colorado, Boulder
April 25, 2006 Savery Hall Room 209 3:30 pm

Steinmo examines the ways Sweden, Germany, Japan and the US have responded and adapted to the pressures of globalization, demographic change and the decline of public trust. He also introduces insights drawn from evolutionary theory and suggest that there is much to gain from this approach to improve our understandings of political and institutional change. This talk will focus on the case of Sweden.

New Music by UW Student Cónan Mclemore

Three Poems of Vesaas, a sonata for flute & piano commissioned by Ed Egerdahl for the 25th anniversary of the Scandinavian Language Institute and based on three poems of Tarjei Vesaas: Vårlukten, Slik Var Den Draumen, and Gjennom Nakne Greiner.

Concertino for Alto Saxophone (a musical re-telling of Helge Kjellin's Swedish fairy tale Leap the Elk and Little Princess Cottongrass.

April 22, 2006 Brechemin Auditorium (Music 128) 7:30 pm

Ecological Man and the Laponia World Heritage Site
Hugh Beach
Anthropology
Uppsala University
Wednesday April 19, 3.30 pm
Mary Gates 258

Hugh Beach is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology & Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden. His extensive body of research includes: Saami (Lapp) and Circumpolar Studies, Pastoralism, Minority Politics, the Social Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster, the “Politics of Ecology” (Global Environmentalism and Indigenous Rights). For more information on the Laponia World Heritage Site, click here.

Sponsored by Program on the Environment and the Department of Anthropology

Scandinavian Music of the 18th century
Bertil van Boer
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wednesday , April 5, 10:30 - 11:20 am
Thomson 125

Lunacy, Political Arrogance, and Nationalism: Eighteenth Century Scandinavian Music in a Nutshell

Bertil van Boer is a musicologist, composer, conductor and violinist. Van Boer specializes in Scandinavian music of the 18th century. His own compositions have been performed in Austria, Sweden, US, Nicaragua and served as conductor with the Opera Kansas.

Seattle Sweden Diabetes Awareness Day:
Leading researchers from Seattle and Sweden will present state-of-the-art studies & promising new developments for children and adolescents with diabetes.

Saturday April 1, 2006 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Bell Harbor International Conference Center
2211 Alaskan Way Seattle, WA 98121
Space Limited - RSVP online.

Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide

Birgitta Steene, Professor Emerita in Department and in Cinema Studies, has just published an exhaustive guide to Bergman's life and work.

Following Bergman's career as a writer, filmmaker and theatre director, the guide combines detailed chronological surveys of his film and theatrical work with annotated lists of interviews and writings on Bergman.

A native of Sweden, Steene is the author of several books and articles on film and drama. She is the former president of the International Association of Scandinavian Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.

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No Longer Lost in Translation

The Boston Globe praises Tiina Nunnaly's translation of Kristin Lavransdatter.

Nunnally, an affiliate faculty member, recently received the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and teaches occasional translation courses in the department.

December 15, 2005
Draumkvedet - The Dreamsong of Olaf Åsteson

Nordic Heritage Museum

Lecture and discussion with Katherine Hanson (Affiliate Associate Professor) exploring the content and history of this medieval Norwegian literary treasure. Nancy Quensé will accompany with story and Beth Kollé with harp. This free presentation will also feature a preview of the performance of Draumkvedet scheduled for January 6, 2006 at Town Hall Downstairs.

December 8, 2005
Tomas Venclova: On Cultural Mythologies of Vilnius

Parrington 309

Tomas Venclova (Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale) is the author of many books and essays on literature. He will discuss Lithuanian Vilnius, Polish Wilno, and Jewish Vilne.

November 22, 2005
The Big Build: Viking Longboat

The History Channel broadcast a new program featuring Professor Terje Leiren on November 22, 2005. The program, part of a new series called “The BIG BUILD,” asks what it takes to construct a Viking ship and
presents the Viking past as an exciting “how to” project. In Anacortes, Washington, a half-size replica of the Gokstad ship takes shape under the supervision of Boatwright Jay Smith who leads a team of specialist using authentic Viking tools and techniques. Dr. Terje Leiren of the University of Washington provides historical commentary on the Viking age helping to put the project into historical context. In the end, the ship is
given away to a local Society for Creative Anachonism from Tacoma.

November 17, 2005
Marilyn Johns Blackwell

Communications 206

Cross-Dressing: Concepts of Gender and Self in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
Marilyn Johns Blackwell, Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Director of Swedish at Ohio State University, earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1976. She is the author of three books on Swedish literature and film (Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman [1997], Persona: The Transcendent Image [1986], and C.J.L. Almqvist and Romantic Irony [1983]), and she is the editor of Structures of Influence: A Comparative Approach to August Strindberg [1981]. In addition to her books, Dr. Blackwell has published widely in North American and Scandinavian journals on Strindberg, Ibsen, Bergman, Vesaas and Dinesen. A distinguished literary scholar and popular teacher, she regularly teaches courses on the films of Ingmar Bergman and Scandinavian literary topics. The Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington is proud to welcome Dr. Marilyn Johns Blackwell back to the UW campus as the first distinguished alumni lecturer.

November 14, 2005
Stecher-Hansen, Nunnally lecture at Smithsonian

In celebration of Norway’s centenntial, Marianne Stecher-Hansen lectured on Knut Hamsun and Tiina Nunnally lectured on Sigrid Undset at the Smithsonian on an evening dedicated to Great Voices of Norwegian Literature.

October 20, 2005
Ánde Somby: The Saami Today: Cultural and Resource Rights

HUB 108


In celebration of Norway’s Centennial, the Smithsonian Associates, the Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Norsemen’s Federation (Pacific Northwest Chapter), and the Department of Scandinavian Studies invite you to attend a special free event with Ánde Somby, native Saami and Professor of Law at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

October 12, 2005
Odd Lovoll

HUB 106B

‘Our old fatherland’s independence and freedom at stake’:
Norwegian-Americans and the Dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian Union, 1905


Odd S. Lovoll is Professor of History at the University of Oslo, Norway and Professor Emeritus at St. Olaf College. He earned his doctorate in U.S. History, specializing in immigration history, at the University of Minnesota. He has served on the faculty of St. Olaf College since 1971 and has been publications editor for the Norwegian-American Historical Association since 1980. In 1992 he was appointed to fill the King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American Studies.

Since 1995 he has held an appointment as Professor II in History at the University of Oslo and teaches there in the fall semester. His published works include A Folk Epic; The Bygdelag in America (1975); The Promise of America: A History of the Norwegian-American People (1984); A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 (1988); and The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today (1998), in addition to a large number of articles dealing with Scandinavian-American topics. In 1986 Lovoll was decorated by H.M. King Olav V with the Knight’s Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit and in 1989 he was invited to occupy a seat in the history section of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

October 12, 2005
Mette Hjort: Cinematic Counter-Globalization in a Small-Nation Context

Communications 206

In Small Nation, Global Cinema, Hjort argues that the emergence of the New Danish Cinema in the course of the '90s can be traced to various strategies of counter-globalization aimed at thwarting the workings of what Miller et al. refer to as 'Global Hollywood.' She suggests the successful globalization of the New Danish Cinema hinges on, among others, a strategy of counter-globalization rooted in what Greg Urban calls 'meta-culture.' The Dogma 95 movement, devised by filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, is a clear instance of this strategy.

This lecture examines more closely the meta-cultural strategy (which involves framing specific cinematic works in terms of manifestos or rules) so as to draw attention to the crucial role that key individuals (rather than State-driven initiatives) can play in processes of counter-globalization. Hjort argues that individuals make a difference when they self-consciously refuse the more than likely possibility of ultimate success in what Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook call 'winner-take-all-markets' in order instead to generate the dynamics of a gift culture that effectively transforms, and thereby psychologically expands, the small-nation context. In an effort to refine and substantiate this view, Hjort looks closely at Lars von Trier's most recent attention-grabbing project, the collaborative experiment with veteran filmmaker Jørgen Leth, entitled The Five Obstructions (De fem benspænd, 2003).

Hjort is Professor of Intercultural Studies at Aalborg University and a Visiting Research Associate at Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Program.

October 1, 2005
Norway Exhibition at Suzallo Library

The University of Washington Libraries and Department of Scandinavian
Studies join together in recognition of Norway’s year-long celebration
of its 100 years of independence.

Exhibition in Suzzalo Library 102, October - November

September 30, 2005
Ivars Lacis: The University of Latvia after European Union Enlargement

Professor Ivars Lacis has served as Rector of the University of Latvia since 2000. His lecture will address the academic, administrative and financial challenges faced by the University of Latvia after that country’s accession to the European Union in May of 2004.Lacis has served as Advisor of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia; a Member of the Senate of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and the Latvian National Committee of UNESCO. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour of France.

Prof. Lacis has been a researcher and faculty member at the University of Latvia since 1969. He is currently also Head of the Laboratory of Optical Materials at the Institute of Solid State Physics. His research and multiple
publications are in the fields of Optometry and Vision Science, Crystal Growth, and Glass Structure. He has taught courses in Semiconductor Microelectronics, Technology of Integrated Circuits, Solid State Chemistry, Experimental Physics, Optometry, and Physiological Optics, and is Director of Bachelor and Master Study Programs in Optometry.

August 4, 2005
Fourth International Andersen Conference

Marianne Stecher-Hansen was the invited plenary lecture at the Fourth International Hans Christian Andersen Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

The lecture, “From Romantic to Modernist Meta-texts: Commemorating Andersen and the Self-Referential Text,” will be published by University of Southern Denmark Press in a collection of selected conference papers.

May 14, 2005
Eighteenth-Century Stockholm in American English

Regarding Some Problems Translating Ernst Brunner’s First-Person Novel about Bellman. Featuring Paul Norlen, Ph.D., Affiliate Assistant Professor

May 4, 2005
Svalbard var deres verden: Personlige beretninger fra kvinner på Svalbard

Ingrid Urberg (University of Alberta - Augstana) lectures in Norwegian on some of the long-standing myths about gender and Svalbard, and points out how the narratives she has collected challenge these myths.

May 4, 2005
Jyrki Nummi on Runeberg's Golden Theme: 'The Swan'

Professor Nummi’s lecture focuses on “The Swan,” a key poem in Johan Ludvig Runeberg’s (1804-1877) first collection of poetry, Dikter I (1830). The lecture situates the poem in its specific cultural context— the birth of the Finnish nation. Runeberg was Finland’s first promising poet and his “Dikter I” the first important collection of lyrical poetry after 1809. In that year, Finland passed from Sweden to the Russian Empire and the tsar declared the new autonomous grand duchy “a nation among nations.” The analysis of the poem focuses on themes of transition in literary ideas, and on the role of the poet in founding a poetic tradition.

May 3, 2005
Andersen Exhibit at Library

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875), Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington featured a special exhibition presenting the Danish author not only as a fairy tale writer but also as a great dramatist, novelist, poet, and travel writer who achieved fame during his life time. The exhibit consisted of a selection from the University’s Special Collections (the Elias Bredsdorff collection of Andersen’s work), including some rare nineteenth-century original editions, historical and contemporary illustrations of popular tales, foreign language translations, and photographic images of the author.

The exhibit was developed by Marianne Stecher-Hansen and Jan Henrik Krogh Nielsen.

April 29, 2005
Northern Europe: From the Cold War to Cooperation

Matti Anttonen, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C., asks: What has made Northern Europe the most dynamic region in post-cold-war Europe? What role did enlargement of the EU and NATO play? How do EU-Russia relations develop during the period? Is the Russian economic model sustainable and will Russian energy help to cut energy prices in the US? Is the Scandinavian model truly facing a crisis? What role does Finland play in all this? Lecture to be followed by Q & A and discussion.

Matti Anttonen served as Deputy Director General of the Eastern Division of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2001. He has also served as Director for Russian Affairs at the Ministry. In the early period of Finland’s EU-membership, Anttonen was responsible for EU-Russia relations and Russia-related trade policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1991 to 1994, he dealt with trade policy questions at the Finnish Permanent Representation in Geneva. From 1987 to 1991, he was posted at the Finnish Embassy in Moscow.

April 15, 2005
New Realism in Scandinavian Film and Television: A Response to New Digital Media and 3-D Spatiality

Bodil Marie Thomsen

In 1995, Danish director Lars von Trier initiated the Dogma-95 manifesto along with Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh Jacobsen and Kristian Levring. The four directors each made a film following the Ten Commandments of Dogma’s “Vow of Chastity,” which proscribes artificial light and sound, postproduction image alteration, as well as many other devices used to “mask” or alter reality and strengthen film’s illusion. Since 1995, thirty-five films have been produced around the world according to the Dogma program. The international press has interpreted Dogma as a protest against the digital mega-productions of Hollywood. What is rarely noted about Dogma’s aspirations towards a new realism is that it also includes an ambition to influence the senses of the audience, rather than to present only a “hand-held” version of everydayness, a phenomenological reading of the world in the style of Italian Neorealism or the French New Wave.

The films of Dogma-95, and especially von Trier’s contribution, as well as his other 1990s films, present a realist expressionism that seems to attack the audience. Aesthetic values are pushed towards the realm of ethics. This lecture proposes a new reading of this new realism, focusing on von Trier’s creation of a perceptible space between screen and audience in The Idiots (1998), spatial multiplicity in Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancer in the Dark (2000), and a mix of theatre space and computer-simulated space in Dogville (2003).

April 14, 2005
Nature and the Authorities as Artistic Material

Lars Vilks
Sculptor and Professor of Art Theory, Bergen National Academy of the Arts

Article on Vilks (in Swedish):
Lars Vilks om sparandets konst
Svenska Dagbladet
September 8 2004

Part of Modern Vikings

November 19, 2004
The Belligerent Gaze: Witnessing at War

Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UW. He has published books on Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake (1999) and on Beckett’s Ontic Space (2001), as well as articles on literary theory, the ontology of fiction, and the European avant-garde. He is currently working on a large-scale study of the relation between politics, aesthetics, violence, and democracy in the twentieth century, ranging from Italian Futurism to the war in the former Yugoslavia and contemporary forms of terrorism.

November 18, 2004
Intersubjective Literary Interpretation: Donald Davidson, Triangulation, and the Role of the Author

A Colloquium with Jan Sjåvik. Using Donald Davidson’s holistic epistemology as his point of departure, Sjåvik tries to show that authorial intention should again be allowed to play a role in the interpretation of literary works. Davidson’s concept of triangulation is at the core of the argument. When two or more persons together are confronted with an object in a common world, Davidsonian triangulation makes it possible to avoid the kind of skepticism that often undermines attempts at objective interpretation. Sjåvik suggests that intersubjective literary interpretation, which entails that reader and author together arrive at a common perception of the meaning of the work, should replace skeptical approaches to literature. Two examples drawn from the works of Arne Garborg are used as illustrations of this line of thinking.

November 15, 2004
Mikael Niemi

Mikael Niemi will discuss his best-selling novel Popularmusik från Vittula, recently translated into English.

November 4, 2004
Sense Studies and Madsen's "Genspejlet"

Kerstin Bergman, Ph.D. (Lund University, Sweden)

May 27, 2004
2004 Career Fair

The first annual Scandinavian & Baltic Career Fair helped students maximize their collegiate and financial potential and bridge the gap between college and their future career.

Participants included: IKEA, Scandinavian Cultural Exchange, NW Danish Foundation, Nordic Heritage Museum, Swedish Cultural Center, Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Department of Scandinavian Studies and Baltic Studies, International Programs & Exchanges.

From left: Esther Foote, Dean of Undergraduate Education George Bridges, Alison Johnston, Reinier Voorwinde, and David Lilleness.

If your business/organization wishes to participate in similar events in the future, please contact Esther Foote

May 17, 2004
Syttende Mai 2004

UW Norwegian Club marches in Ballard as part of the annual Norwegian Constitution Day Parade.

May 5, 2004
America - Scandinavia: Cultural Differences and Cultural Similarities

Steinar Bryn (Professor & Cultural Philosopher, Nansen Humanistic Academy, Lillehammer) earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, in 1993. A Visiting Professor this Spring at Pacific Lutheran University, Bryn is a Professor at the Nansen Humanistic Academy in Norway where is is Project Director for the Nansen Network, a conflict resolution project, supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, running 10 Nansen Dialogue Centers in the former Yugoslavia. With a degree in American Studies, Bryn has a unique perspective on the cultural communication between the United States and Scandinavia, especially Norway.

His lecture looks at the perceptions held by Americans and Srcandinavians and challenges general assumptions about “Americanization.”

April 19, 2004
Einar Jarmund

Einar Jarmund Lecture
The College of Architecture and Urgan Planning Lecture Series
Co-Sponsored by The Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Valle Scandinavian Exchange Program

EINAR JARMUND
Architect, Oslo, Norway

April 1, 2004
Kierkegaard Colloquium

Poul Behrendt (University of Copenhagen, Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley) speaks on on “The Art of Writing Posthumous Papers: The Great Earthquake of Søren Kierkegaard Revisited” and his current book project on Kierkegaard. Professor Kim Andersen of WSU has been invited to serve as the respondent to the lecture.

February 25, 2004
The Baltic in the 21st Century on UW TV

Three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, entered the European Union and the NATO Alliance in 2004. Do external threats to political security exist? Will there be economic growth? What are the destabilizing factors as European borders disappear?

In the program “The Baltic in the 21st Century,” broadast on the Research Channel, a panel of four leading Baltic Studies scholars project the political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the region.

See it now via streaming video, and for more information visit the Baltic Studies Program.

December 4, 2003
Swedish Program Receives Top International Honors

The University of Washington’s Swedish Studies Program is one of the two best in the world, according to the Swedish Institute in Stockholm.

This award recognizes the UW Swedish program’s outstanding efforts in promoting the Swedish language and culture outside of Sweden. The program provides “American students the opportunity to pursue in-depth studies in Swedish society and culture within their (collegiate) majors.”

Particularly cited were UW Associate Professor Lotta Gavel Adams and Senior Lecturer Ia Dübois, both Swedish specialists on the faculty.

Press Release [44kb PDF]

April 7, 2003
Nunnally Wins Prestigious Translation Prize

Tiina Nunnally, affiliate member of the faculty, has won the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Britain’s leading award for novels translated into English. She was awarded for her translation of Per Olov Enquist’s The Visit of the Royal Physician.

Nunnally is considered the foremost translator of Scandinavian literature to English. She won the PEN translation prize for her rendering of Sigrid Undset’s Nobel Prize winning novel Kristen Lavransdatter in 2001. She translated Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg and Linn Ullmann’s debut novel Before You Sleep.