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Schedule:  October 1, 2025 (7:00-8:30 pm CT) Instructor:  Author Lars Mytting and Dr. Maren Anderson Johnson  Location:  This event will be held live in Vesterheim Commons and will be livestreamed on Zoom for an online audience.    Author Lars Mytting...

Schedule:  November 19 (7:00-8:15 pm CT)   Location:  This is an online class hosted on Zoom.    Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College's Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors...

Schedule:  December 17 (7:00-8:15 pm CT) Location:  This is an online class hosted on Zoom.    In a twist on Vesterheim's monthly bokprat discussions, join us in December for a discussion of the Norwegian television series The Commoner.  The Commoner is a...

Schedule:  January 28 (7:00-8:15 pm CT) Location:  This is an online class hosted on Zoom.    Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College's Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and...

Schedule:  February 18 (7:00-8:15 pm CT) Location:  This is an online class hosted on Zoom.    Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College's Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and...

Schedule:  March 11 (7:00-8:15 pm CT) Location:  This is an online class hosted on Zoom.    Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College's Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and...

In this biting, lyrical memoir, Camara Lundestad Joof, born in Bodø to Norwegian and Gambian parents, shares her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. Joof’s daily encounters belie the myth of a colorblind contemporary Scandinavia. She wrestles with the...

The second novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy – an epic, moving, and gloriously told historical novel following The Bell in the Lake. Hardcover.

In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be...

A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII–era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is also the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy. The Sister Bells Trilogy includesThe Bell in the Lake (#1)The Reindeer...