Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (orig. Seitsemän veljestä). Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.

Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, into a tailor's family. In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted into the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater. His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic tale from the Kalevala.

From 1863 onwards, Kivi devoted his time to writing. He wrote 12 plays and a collection of poetry. The novel Seven Brothers took h

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Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentials of scientific research and by the offbeat anecdotes and meanderings from the history of science. Her debut novel, Beasts of the Sea (2023) was praised immediately upon its release as a world-class work, one that brings together a lost world and living literature: for it, she won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the Thank You For the Book Prize, and was nominated for the Finlandia Prize and the Torch-bearer Prize in Finland and the Premio Strega Europeo in Italy, among others.
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Pajtim Statovci

Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.

FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia ja Tiranan sydän, ovat saaneet englanninkielisessä maailmassa haltioituneen vastaanoton. Hänen teostensa käännösoikeuksia on myyty yli 15 kielialueelle. Statovci palkittiin esikoisromaanistaan Kissani Jugoslavia Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla, ja Tiranan sydän voitti Toisinkoinen-kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Statovci asuu Helsingissä ja valmistelee Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjaa kirjallisuuden eläinrepresentaatioista.

Tiranan sydän (englanniksi Crossing) oli ehdolla arvostetun National Book Awards -palkinnon saajaksi. Bolla sai Finla
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Tommi Kinnunen

Tommi Kinnunen (b. 1973) was born in Kuusamo, north-east Finland and currently lives in Turku, where he works as a Finnish literature school teacher. His debut novel, Where Four Roads Meet has dominated the charts in Finland ever since its publication and has sold over 82,000 units to date. The novel was awarded the Best Novel of 2014 Prize by the Jury of the Finnish Grand Journalism Prize as well as the Thank You for the Book Prize by the Finnish Booksellers’ Association. It was also shortlisted for both the Finlandia Prize for Fiction and the Best Debut of the Year Prize.
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Kyung-Sook Shin

Associated Names:
* Shin Kyung-sook
* 신경숙
* 申京淑

Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look After Mom'.
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Aino Kallas

ENG: Aino Kallas' father was a remarkable researcher of folklore, and he died early during Aino's childhood. Aino was married to Oskar Kallas and they has three children, at the time she was still in the beginning of her career as a writer - her "best" years were in between 1920 and 1930, her style being greatly influenced by numerous people, one of which was Eino Leino. Aino spent about half a year at a hospital in 1934, healed well, yet lost her son and a daughter during Estonia's years of war. After her husband died too, Aino began writing memoirs and soon lost her other daughter too. Aino Kallas herself died in Helsinki in 1956.

FI: Aino Kallas (tyttönimeltään Aino Krohn) syntyi Viipurissa 1878. Hänen isänsä oli Julius Krohn, joka oli me
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Märta Tikkanen

Märta Tikkanen (b. April 3, 1935) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer. Born in Helsinki she worked as a reporter for Hufvudstadsbladet from 1956 to 1961. She graduated from the University of Helsinki, Master of Arts in 1958 and received a Master of Philosophy in 1961. Tikkanen was married to the writer Henrik Tikkanen. A film based on her book Manrape (Män kan inte våldtas, "Men Can't Be Raped"), directed by Jörn Donner, was released in 1978.
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Sofi Oksanen

Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland to a Finnish father and an Estonian mother. In 2010 she won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her third novel (originally a play), Puhdistus (Purge).
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Eino Leino

Eino Leino was born as Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm in Paltamo and was the seventh and youngest son in a family of ten children.

Leino published his first poem at 12 and, by age 18, a collection of poems as well, Maaliskuun lauluja.

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Early in his career Eino Leino was much loved and praised by the critics. He joined literary and newspaper circles and became a member of the Young Finnish circle. Among Leino's friends were the artist Pekka Halonen and Otto Manninen, who gained fame as a poet and translator.[1]

After the Finnish Civil War, Leino's idealistic faith for a national unity collapsed, and his influence as a journalist and polemicist weakened. He was granted a State writer's pension in 1918 at the age of forty. Although pu
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Arvid Järnefelt

Arvid Järnefelt (1861-1932) oli varatuomari, fennomaani ja aatehistoriallinen kirjailija sekä lopulta Tolstoin vaikutuksesta maanviljelijä.
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Aino Kallas

ENG: Aino Kallas' father was a remarkable researcher of folklore, and he died early during Aino's childhood. Aino was married to Oskar Kallas and they has three children, at the time she was still in the beginning of her career as a writer - her "best" years were in between 1920 and 1930, her style being greatly influenced by numerous people, one of which was Eino Leino. Aino spent about half a year at a hospital in 1934, healed well, yet lost her son and a daughter during Estonia's years of war. After her husband died too, Aino began writing memoirs and soon lost her other daughter too. Aino Kallas herself died in Helsinki in 1956.

FI: Aino Kallas (tyttönimeltään Aino Krohn) syntyi Viipurissa 1878. Hänen isänsä oli Julius Krohn, joka oli me
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Minna Canth

Minna Canth, born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson, 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. Her play The Pastor's Family is her best known. In her time, she became a controversial figure, due to the asynchrony between her ideas and those of her time, and in part due to her strong advocacy for her point of view.

Minna Canth is the first woman to receive her own flag day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007. It is also the day
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Anna-Leena Härkönen

ENG: Anna-Leena Härkönen works as a writer and an actor, having acted as a scriptwriter too. Her works have been adapted into movies and plays, and Häräntappoase has been made into a television series of six episodes, too.

FI: Anna-Leena Härkönen on syntynyt 10.4.1965 Limingassa, kirjoittanut ylioppilaaksi vuonna 1985, opiskellut Teatterikorkeakoulussa ja Tampereen yliopiston näyttelijäntyön laitoksella ja valmistunut näyttelijäksi 1989. Anna-Leena Härkönen asuu Helsingissä ja toimii vapaana kirjailijana ja näyttelijänä.

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Väinö Linna

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Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region. He was the seventh child of Viktor (Vihtori) Linna (1874–1927) and Johanna Maria (Maija) Linna (1888–1972). However, Linna's father, a butcher, died when Väinö Linna was only eight years old. Thus his mother had to support the entire family by working at a nearby manor. Despite his background, Linna's interest in literature bega
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Elias Lönnrot

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Lönnrot was born in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa in Finland. He studied medicine at the Academy of Turku. To his misfortune the year he joined was the year of the Great Fire of Turku, burning down half the town – and the University. Lönnrot (and many of the rest of the University) moved to Helsinki, where he graduated in 1832.

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Johanna Sinisalo

ENG: Johanna Sinisalo is an award-winning Finnish author. She was born in Sodankylä in 1958. During 1984-1997, she worked as a professional designer in advertising, after which she started as a screenwriter and writer. Sinisalo's first novel, Troll, won the Finlandia prize, the most important literature award in Finland. As her hobbies, Sinisalo mentions astronomy, gastronomy, hiking, literature and comics.

The author notes that her novels always feature a bit of the small everyday reality. However, overcoming the borders of realism does not mean that the author's works were to be classified as sci-fi or fantasy – from Sinisalo's point of view, categorizing literature by genre should be left behind.

FI: Johanna Sinisalo on syntynyt Sodankylä
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Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.

Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.

Jansson's Moomin books have been translated in
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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian.
Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. Later he enrolled in the University of Helsinki as a theology student, according to his mother's wishes, but soon abandoned theology in favour of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, graduating in 1929. While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in 1925. In 1927 he went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life. In terms of style, the novel is considered to be
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Väinö Linna

Väinö Linna was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).

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Minna Canth

Minna Canth, born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson, 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. Her play The Pastor's Family is her best known. In her time, she became a controversial figure, due to the asynchrony between her ideas and those of her time, and in part due to her strong advocacy for her point of view.

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Elias Lönnrot

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Lönnrot was born in Sammatti, in the province of Uusimaa in Finland. He studied medicine at the Academy of Turku. To his misfortune the year he joined was the year of the Great Fire of Turku, burning down half the town – and the University. Lönnrot (and many of the rest of the University) moved to Helsinki, where he graduated in 1832.

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Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English Folklore. His work went on to popularize some of the worlds best known versions of English fairy tales including "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Goldilocks and the three bears", "The Three Little Pigs", "Jack the Giant Killer" and "The History of Tom Thumb". He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairytales in 1894 but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian Fairytales which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the
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Elmer Diktonius

Elmer Rafael Diktonius (1896-1961) was a Finnish poet and prosaist who wrote in Swedish. After and along with Edith Södergran, he was the most significant Finnish-Swedish modernist and a member of the 1920's young radicals' literary group Tulenkantajat, to whose newspaper he also contributed. There were both expressionist and imagist influences seen in his works.

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Pentti Haanpää

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Pentti Haanpää (1905–1955) oli kirjailijana erityisesti pohjoisen Suomen ja maaseudun yhteiskuntakriittinen ja realistinen kuvaaja. Häntä pidetään erityisesti novellitaiteen mestarina ja Haanpään tuotantoon kuuluukin kahdeksan romaanin lisäksi satoja novelleja. Hänet palkittiin Pro Finlandia -mitalilla vuonna 1948.
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Kauko Röyhkä

Kauko Röyhkä, born Jukka-Pekka Välimaa, is a Finnish rock musician and author.
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Hannu Salama

Hannu Salama syntyi 4.10.1936 Kouvolassa. Hän opiskeli Kansankorkeakoulussa vuonna 1957 ja työskenteli sähkömiehenä sekä sekatyömiehenä useita vuosia. Vapaa kirjailija hän on ollut 1960-luvun alusta lähtien.

Hannu Salaman laajaan tuotantoon kuuluu proosaa ja runoja. Kirjallisen läpimurtonsa Hannu Salama teki neljännellä teoksellaan Juhannustanssit (1964). Teoksen ristiriitainen vastaanotto johti kuuluisaan jumalanpilkkaoikeudenkäyntiin ja kirjan osittaiseen sensuroimiseen. Salama on julkaissut kolme rikosromaania salanimellä Aki Rautala.

Salaman romaaneita on dramatisoitu teatteriesityksiksi sekä tv- ja elokuvakäsikirjoituksiksi ja hänen teoksiaan on käännetty kymmenelle kielelle.

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Perttu Häkkinen

Perttu Häkkinen (s. kesäkuu 1979 Kokkola) on suomalainen muusikko ja toimittaja.

Häkkinen perusti vuonna 1998 elektronisen musiikin yhtye Imatran Voiman yhdessä Jaakko Kestilän kanssa. Hän on käyttänyt muusikkona taiteilijanimeä Randy Barracuda ja Kestilä nimeä Fresh O Lexx. Imatran Voimalta on julkaistu kolme albumia, joista ensimmäinen vuonna 2004. Imatran Voiman lisäksi hän on soittanut muun muassa yhtyeissä Itäväylä, Anaalivaihe, Boyz of Caligula ja Tähtiportti. Vuonna 2009 julkaistiin Häkkisen ensimmäinen sooloalbumi Randy Barracudana ruotsalaisyhtiö Flogsta Danshallin kautta. Hänen toinen sooloalbuminsa Random Works of Randy Barracuda Vol. II julkaistiin vuonna 2012 yhdysvaltalaisen Losonofono Recordsin kautta.

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Veijo Meri

Veijo Meri was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focused on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor.
Born in Viipuri (today Vyborg, Russia), Meri graduated from secondary school in Hämeenlinna, then studied history and became an independent writer.
His diverse body of work included novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.
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