The Ice Palace is a story set in Norway about a girl, Unn, who has moved to a new town to live with her aunt after the death of her mother (her still-living father is someone she has never known). At ...

The Birds is the story of Mattis, a man with learning disabilities in his late 30s, and his sister Hege who takes care of him. They live near the shore of a lake somewhere in rural Norway. Hege knits ...

The Norwegian countryside and the poetry of a famous writer are key elements in 'Gavagai,' a two-hander co-written, directed, shot and edited by Rob Tregenza. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film ...

Shani Boianjiu is the author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid. When I was 11, I found a book that did not know it was a book. It was a yellowing Hebrew translation of Tarjei Vesaas' Norwegian ...

Studies in the Novel has been published quarterly by the Department of English at the University of North Texas since 1969. Its aim is to present excellence in criticism of the novel in all periods, ...

(NOTE: This January 8 session will take place online via Zoom. Other World Literature book group sessions are hybrid.) Discuss The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas with fellow members. World Literature is ...

5/5 By Tarjei Vesaas. Siss and her school-friends return to the now-melting Ice Palace.

The title of Gavagai, an internationally coproduced art film playing this week at Facets Cinémathèque, refers to a word in a made-up language invented by American philosopher W.V. Quine in his thesis ...

Tarjei Vesaas’s The Ice Palace (Is-slottet), first published in 1963, is a masterpiece of Norwegian literature and a deeply moving story about friendship, loss, and the mysteries of human connection.