Claes Andersson
Claes Andersson was a Finland-Swedish author, psychiatrist, musician, politician and former member of the Finnish parliament representing the Left Alliance.
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Marjo Niemi
Marjo Niemi (s. 1978) on helsinkiläinen kirjailija ja näytelmäkirjailija. Hän valmistui dramaturgiksi Teatterikorkeakoulusta vuonna 2004. Marjo Niemen esikoisteos Juostu maa (Teos) ilmestyi vuonna 2004 ja sai Tiiliskivi-palkinnon. Marjon toinen romaani Miten niin valo ilmestyi vuonna 2008 ja oli Runeberg-palkintoehdokkaana.
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Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg lived in Brooklyn until she was six, when her family moved out to Farmingdale, Long Island, where her father owned the bar the Aero Tavern. From a young age, Goldberg was mad for books and reading, and especially loved Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe , which she read in ninth grade. She thinks that single book led her eventually to put pen to paper when she was twenty-four years old. She received a BA in English literature from George Washington University and an MA in humanities from St. John's University.
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Goldberg has painted for as long as she has written, and her paintings can be seen in Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World and Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings. They can also be viewed at the Ernest -
Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
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He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl -
Ágota Kristóf
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
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Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio -
Pirkko Saisio
See also Saisio's pseudonyms: Jukka Larsson, Eva Wein
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Pirkko Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. Saisiolla on laaja kirjallinen tuotanto, joka romaanien ja näytelmien ohella käsittää monenlaisia tekstejä elokuvakäsikirjoituksista aina balettilibretoihin asti. Saisio on kirjoittanut näytelmiä niin teatteriin kuin televisioonkin, ja lisäksi hän ohjaa ja näyttelee itsekin. Saisio suoritti Suomen Teatterikoulun näyttelijän tutkinnon 1975 ja toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgian professorina 1997–2002. -
Petri Tamminen
Petri Tamminen (s. 1966) on valmistunut Tampereen yliopistosta pääaineenan tiedotusoppi. Tamminen asuu perheineen Vääksyssä ja työskentelee vapaana kirjailijana.
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Tamminen tunnetaan lyhytproosan ja lakonisen huumorin mestarina. Esikoisteos, liuskan mittaisia tarinoita sisältävä kokoelma Elämiä ilmestyi vuonna 1994.
Suuren yleisön tietoisuuteen Tamminen nousi Enon opetukset -romaanin Finlandia-ehdokkuudella vuodella 2006.
Muita hyviä ominaisuuksia -teoksessaan (2010) Tamminen kuvaa ujoutta ja häpeää ja asettaa itsensä esimerkkihenkilöksi. ”Isänä en riitä, poikana en riitä, en riitä lentopalloilijana enkä remonttimiehenä, en ruoanlaittajana, en kirjallisuudentutkijana.”
Petri Tamminen on saanut Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon kirjastaan Piiloutujan maa.
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Sally Salminen
Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen (later Salminen-Dührkopf) was an internationally renowned author from the Åland Islands, Finland.
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Born in Vårdö, Åland, Sally Salminen was the eighth child of twelve. Already as a child she entertained notions of becoming an author, but she considered herself to be too poor and unknowledgeable to succeed as a writer. After her confirmation, she worked in the village grocery store, until she moved to Stockholm, Sweden to work as a maid. During her tenure in Sweden she took correspondent courses and read books in her spare time.
In 1930 Sally and her sister Aili moved to New York City, New York, United States. While in New York, she wrote during her spare time, and it was here she started writing the manuscript for -
Torsti Lehtinen
Torsti Lehtinen is a Finnish writer and philosopher. He studied philosophy, theology and literature at the University of Helsinki.
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In 1959 he made his first trip abroad, to Copenhagen, a city that became and has remained a foreign focal point for him. The years 1979-1982 he lived in Stockholm before returning to Finland, first to Middle-Finland and then, in 1999, to his native Helsinki.
Since his youth he tried his hand in some 40 different professions, the more serious of which were working as a teacher for the socially handicapped for five years and as a software consultant for Nokia computers for nine years.
In 1982 he published his first novel, Kun päättyy Pitkäsilta (Where ends the Longbridge). With the publication of his second novel, -
Alex Schulman
Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.
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Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.
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Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional.
Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English, -
Satu Rämö
My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.
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Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.
I have published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in my native Finland, ranging from travel guides to Iceland, to inspirational memoirs and an Icelandic knitting book.
My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar -
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection -
Miira Luhtavaara
Miira Luhtavaara (s. 1983) asuu Helsingissä ja on koulutukseltaan psykologian maisteri. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa ja kirjoittanut runojen lisäksi tekstejä näytelmiin ja muihin esityksiin mm. Ylioppilasteatterissa ja TRES-ryhmässä. Hänen runojaan on aiemmin julkaistu Suuren runokilpailun antologiassa (2013). Ruohikon luut on hänen esikoisteoksensa.
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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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Chi Ta-wei
Chi Ta-wei was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1972. He attended National Taiwan University, graduating from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, and received a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches literature at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan.
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Chi Ta-wei is most well-known for his science fiction novel Membrane (膜, 1996), which was one of the first queer novels to be published in Chinese. He has also published various short story collections and volumes of critical essays on queer and science-fiction literature, and translated several foreign works into Chinese, including a series of novels by Italian author Italo Calvino. -
Henriikka Rönkkönen
Henriikka Rönkkönen on Heinolasta kotoisin oleva kirjailija ja bloggaaja. Koulutukseltaan hän on filosofian maisteri, pääaineena äidinkieli ja kirjallisuus. Ennen oman sinkkuutta käsittelevän bloginsa aloittamista hän kirjoittti City-lehteen seksiä ja seksuaalisuutta käsittelevää blogia.
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Iida Turpeinen
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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Emi Yagi
Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women’s magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Osamu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction.
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Torsti Lehtinen
Torsti Lehtinen is a Finnish writer and philosopher. He studied philosophy, theology and literature at the University of Helsinki.
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In 1959 he made his first trip abroad, to Copenhagen, a city that became and has remained a foreign focal point for him. The years 1979-1982 he lived in Stockholm before returning to Finland, first to Middle-Finland and then, in 1999, to his native Helsinki.
Since his youth he tried his hand in some 40 different professions, the more serious of which were working as a teacher for the socially handicapped for five years and as a software consultant for Nokia computers for nine years.
In 1982 he published his first novel, Kun päättyy Pitkäsilta (Where ends the Longbridge). With the publication of his second novel, -
Silene Lehto
Silene Lehto on syntynyt Hattulassa vuonna 1979, kasvanut Valkealassa ja työskentelee nykyisin Helsingissä Kallion kirjastossa. Hän juhli hopeasijaa vuoden 2009 J. H. Erkon lyriikkakilpailussa 30 runon sarjalla, josta hioutui hänen esikoisteoksensa Hän lähti valaiden matkaan.
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