Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller. Jo Nesbo
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores. Jo Nesbo
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with. Jo Nesbo
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. Christian Lacroix
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. David Korten
scandinavian in Dutch is Scandinavisch
scandinavian in French is scandinave
scandinavian in Portuguese is Escandinavo
scandinavian in Swedish is skandinavisk
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