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Pu Songling

Pu Songling (simplified Chinese: 蒲松龄; traditional Chinese: 蒲松齡; pinyin: Pú Sōnglíng; Wade–Giles: P'u Sung-ling, June 5, 1640—February 25, 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Pu was born into a poor landlord-merchant family from Zichuan (淄川, now Zibo, Shandong). At the age of nineteen, he received the gongsheng degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the xiucai degree.

He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan to him.

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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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Ichiro Kishimi

Ichiro KISHIMI Philosopher, Adlerian psychologist and translator of English and German languages. Born in 1956.

M.A.in philosophy from Kyoto University. Director of the Japanese Society of Adlerian psychology. Former counselor at Maeda Clinic in Kyoto and has taught philosophy and ancient Greek at various institutions such as Kyoto University of Education and Nara Women's University.

He presently teaches educational psychology and clinical psychology at Meiji School of Oriental Medicine in Suita, Osaka. Kishimi now has his own private counseling office in Kameoka, Kyoto, and devotes his time to giving lectures on Adlerian Psychology and child education.

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Rosa Liksom

Rosa Liksom (born Anni Ylävaara, Ylitornio, 7 January 1958) is a Finnish writer and artist. She studied anthropology and social sciences at the universities of Helsinki, Copenhagen and Moscow. She won the J. H. Erkko Award in 1985 for her debut novel Yhden yön pysäkki and the Finlandia Prize in 2011 for Hytti nro 6.

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Rob Sears

Rob lives and works in Finsbury Park in London with his cat, dog and wife. His books tend to take an irreverent and fun approach to things that we usually talk about with our Serious Voices, such as monstrous world leaders and the environmental omnicrisis we're living through.

His latest work is The Biggest Footprint, an illustrated book that tells the story of humanity's impact on nature through the character of the mega human, a 3km-tall blue giant made out of every human on earth. It's his first book for kids and adults, and aims to give readers a new perspective on the big data about our species.

Previously Rob wrote a series of hit humour books about world leaders, including The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Life Co

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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).

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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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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Cara Hunter

Cara Hunter is a writer who lives in Oxford, in a street not unlike those featured in her series of crime books. Close to Home is her debut featuring DI Adam Fawley, and her second, In the Dark, is coming soon.

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Elisa Shua Dusapin

Elisa Shua Dusapin was born in France in 1992 and raised in Paris, Seoul and Switzerland. Winter in Sokcho (Hiver à Sokcho) is her first novel. Published in 2016 to wide acclaim, it was awarded the Prix Robert Walser and the Prix Régine Desforges and has been translated into six languages.

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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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Anni Kytömäki

Anni Kytömäki on palkittu suomalainen kirjailija. Koulutukseltaan hän on luontokartoittaja. Kytömäen esikoisteos Kultarinta oli ehdolla vuoden 2014 Finlandia-palkinnon ja Helsingin Sanomien esikoiskirjapalkinnon saajaksi. Kultarinta palkittiin Kaarlen palkinnolla, Tulenkantaja-palkinnolla ja Tampereen kaupungin kirjallisuuspalkinnolla. Margarita-romaani voitti vuoden 2020 Finlandia-palkinnon.

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Olga Ravn

Olga Sofia Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. Initially she published poetry which was acclaimed by the critics, as was her first novel Celestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literary critic for Politiken and several other Danish publications.

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Satu Rämö

My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.

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

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Benjamín Labatut

Benjamin Labatut was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He spent his childhood in The Hague and Buenos Aires and when he was twelve years old he moved to Santiago de Chile, where he lives today.

La Antártica empieza aquí was his first book, being published in México, where it won Premio Caza de Letras 2009, delivered by Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Editorial Alfaguara.

His second book is titled Después de la luz, appeared in 2016, published by Editorial Hueders. After a deep personal crisis, Labatut wrote this book, conformed by scientific, historical and filosofical notes about the void.

His third book Un verdor terrible, was published in spanish by Editorial Anagrama and also several countries such Germany, Italy, France, Netherl

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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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C.S. Lewis

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Clive Staples Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954. He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the

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Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, HERESIES for the Royal Shakespeare Company, CLAM, CALL BLUE JANE, SHINY NYLON, HONEY BABY MIDDLE ENGLAND, PUSHING THE PRINCE INTO DENMARK and MACBETH-FALSE MEMORIES, some of which are published in LEVY: PLAYS 1 (Methuen)

Deborah wrote and published her first novel BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (Vintage), when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include, SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY, THE UNLOVED (Vintage) and BILLY and GIRL (Bloomsbury).

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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.

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

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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.

He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but br

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Iida Rauma

Iida Rauma on turkulainen kirjailija. Rauma valmistui valtiotieteiden maisteriksi Turun yliopistosta, missä hän opiskeli poliittista historiaa, valtio-oppia, sukupuolentutkimusta ja luovaa kirjoittamista. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Katoamisten kirja oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Toinen romaani Seksistä ja matematiikasta voitti Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon sekä Tulenkantaja-palkinnon. Rauman kolmannessa romaanissa Hävitys: tapauskertomus nivoutuvat yhteen kouluväkivalta, ekokriisi ja Turun kaupungin historia. Kirja voitti Finlandia-palkinnon 2022.

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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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Anna Brzezińska

Urodzona w 1971 roku. Mediewistka. Obok Andrzeja Sapkowskiego jest najpopularniejszym polskim twórcą fantasy. Współwłaścicielka Agencji Wydawniczej RUNA.

Zadebiutowała opowiadaniem „A kochał ją, że strach”, które przyniosło jej Nagrodę Fandomu Polskiego im. Janusza A. Zajdla i stało się zarzewiem gorącej dyskusji o stanie polskiej współczesnej prozy fantastycznej. Opublikowała sześć książek: „Zbójecki gościniec”, „Żmijowa harfa” (za nią także otrzymała Nagrodę Fandomu Polskiego im. Janusza A. Zajdla), „Opowieści z Wilżyńskiej Doliny”, „Letni deszcz. Kielich”, „Wody głębokie jak niebo” i „Plewy na wietrze” oraz szereg opowiadań.

Zbiór fabularnie powiązanych opowiadań „Wody głębokie jak niebo” zasługuje na szczególną uwagę: opowiadanie tytułowe

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Josef Lada

Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.

He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk.

Born in the small village of Hrusice in a cobbler's family, he went to Prague at the age of 14 to become an apprentice binder. He loved to draw and paint. Entirely self-taught, he created his own style as a caricaturist for newspapers, and later as an illustrator. He wrote and illustrated the adventures of Mikeš, a little black cat who could talk.

Lada produced landscapes, created frescoes and designed costumes for plays and films. Over the years he crea

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Terhi Tarkiainen

Terhi Tarkiainen on kotoisin Lappeenrannasta, sittemmin helsinkiläistynyt, mutta aina karjalainen. Koulutukseltaan hän on humanisti, kirjoittajana kujeileva humoristi ja omaleimainen historiallisen romaanin taituri. Monipuolinen kirjailija tunnetaan niin 1700-luvun brittineidoista kertovasta Vallattomat viettelijät -sarjasta kuin nyky-Suomeen sijoittuvasta Verta hampaissa -vampyyrisarjasta. Jo nuorena Tarkiainen ilmoitti haluavansa Kaari Utrioksi Kaari Utrion paikalle, aikuisena hän on tyytyväinen vain saadessaan seurata perässä.

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Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, born Zelda Sayre, was a novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper". After the success of his first novel This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities. The newspapers of New York saw them as embodiments of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties: young, rich, beautiful, and energetic.

Zelda Sayre grew up in a wealthy and prim southern family. Even as a child her audacious behavior was the subject of Montgomery gossip. Shortly after finishing high school, she met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a dance. A whirlwind courtship ensued. Though he had professed his infatuation, she continued seeing other men. Despite fights and

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Petri Hiltunen

Petri Hiltunen is a Finnish comic book artist, writer and illustrator. Hiltunen has produced work in a variety of genres, but is most notable for his fantasy and horror work. He has won the prestigious Puupäähattu award in 2002, which is regarded as the highest honour for Finnish comic artists. He is also a well-known figure in Finnish science fiction fandom and a regular panelist and guest of honour at conventions, such as Finncon.

His own comic albums include the horror/fantasy tale Laulu yön lapsista ("Song of the children of the night") and a comic version of Macbeth. The fantasy world of Jaconia, created for his Praedor comics, has been adapted into a role-playing game of the same name. His work has also been featured in the science fic

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Laura Gustafsson

ENG: Laura Gustafsson describes herself as a playwright, a vegan and a glamour blonde. She's got two university degrees, cats and a husband. Her way of using language has been most influenced by her mother. If Laura wasn't an author, she would use all her time loving animals and listening to 22-Pistepirkko (a Finnish band).

FI: Laura Gustafsson (s. 1983) on näytelmäkirjailija, vegaani ja glamourblondi. Hänellä on kaksi yliopistotutkintoa, kissoja ja mies. Hän on saanut kieleensä eniten vaikutteita äidiltään. Jos Laura ei kirjoittaisi, hän käyttäisi kaiken aikansa eläinten paijaamiseen ja 22-Pistepirkon kuuntelemiseen.

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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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Mike Mason

Line Developer and Editor for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, freelance author and game designer.

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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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Undinė Radzevičiūtė

Baigė meno istorijos, teorijos ir kritikos studijas Vilniaus Dailės Akademijoje.
Doktorantūros studijos liko nebaigtos.
Dešimtį metų dirbo tarptautinių reklamos agentūrų – "Saatchi&Saatchi" (Vilnius), "Leo Burnett Vilnius" etc. – kūrybos direktore.
Autorės knygos penkis kartus (2003, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) pateko į kūrybingiausių metų knygų shortlist‘us, ir tris kartus (2011, 2013, 2017) - į geriausių metų knygų shortlist‘us.
2015 knyga ,,Žuvys ir drakonai'' įvertinta Europos sąjungos literatūros premija, Lietuvių PEN centro išrinkta tarp geriausių dešimtmečio knygų, kritikų ir skaitytojų išrinkta į 100-uką geriausių lietuviškų knygų išleistų per pastaruosius šimtą metų.
Knyga ,,Žuvys ir drakonai'' išversta ar šiuo metu verčiama į vokiečių, ang

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Imre Kertész

Born in Budapest in 1929, during World War II Imre Kertész was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1944 and later at Buchenwald. After the war and repatriation, Kertész soon ended his brief career as a journalist and turned to translation, specializing in German language works. He later emigrated to Berlin. Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".

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Rita Felski

Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and editor of New Literary History. Felski is a prominent scholar in the fields of aesthetics and literary theory, feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity, and cultural studies.

Felski received an honors degree in French and German literature from Cambridge University and her PhD from the Department of German at Monash University in Australia. Before coming to the University of Virginia in 1994, she taught in the Program for English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University in Perth. She served as Chair of the Comparative Literature Program at Virginia from 2004 to 2008.

From 2003-2007 Felski served as U.S. editor of Feminist Theory. She has

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Felicity Brooks

Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer (someone who compiles dictionaries) before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s.

She has written and edited hundreds of children’s books, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts.

Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.

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Anni Saastamoinen

Anni Saastamoinen is a Finnish author and radio journalist. Her first book Depressiopäiväkirjat was released in 2017.

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Ulla-Lena Lundberg

Ulla-Lena Lundberg on syntynyt Kökarissa ja asuu nykyisin Porvoossa. Jo 15-vuotiaana debytoinut Lundberg on julkaissut lähes kaksikymmentä kirjaa: runoja, raportteja, matkakertomuksia ja romaaneja. Hänet on palkittu moneen kertaan; hän on mm. saanut kahdesti valtion kirjallisuuspalkinnon, ollut neljä kertaa Finlandia-ehdokkaana ja Pohjoismaisen kirjallisuuspalkinnon ehdokkaana ja saanut Ruotsin Akatemian Finland-palkinnon, Gummeruksen Kaarlen palkinnon ja Kiitos kirjasta -mitalin. Vuonna 1993 hänet nimitettiin taiteilijaprofessoriksi sekä Åbo Akademin kunniatohtoriksi. Lundberg voitti vuoden 2012 Finlandia-palkinnon romaanillaan Jää.

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Tuija Lehtinen

Tuija Lehtinen is a Finnish writer. In 1973 she graduated from high school in Kuopio, then in 1978 graduated with a BS from the University of Oulu, majoring in statistics. Lehtinen was a freelance journalist from 1979-1984 and has since worked as a freelance author. Her best-known works include the Mirkka, Laura and Janne novel series. They have been translated into Danish, Swedish, German, Estonian and Japanese.

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Inkeri Markkula

Inkeri Markkula (born in 1977) is a Finnish writer and biologist whose research work consists of studying the northern nature. Markkula’s research has taken her to the Arctic regions, and she has lived in Lapland, Iceland and Svalbard.

The author’s debut novel Two People per Minute (2016) was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize as one of the best debut novels of the year.

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Riikka Pulkkinen

Riikka Pulkkinen was born in 1980 and spent her youth in Oulu, a town on Finland’s northwest coast, with her father (a lawyer), mother (a doctor), and two sisters. During that time, she was also a very talented athlete. Nowadays she studies literature and philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and does her jogging without a stopwatch.

The Border, Pulkkinen's first novel, was published in 2006 and got positive reviews and immediate sales success.

Her second novel, True, came out in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Finland. The film rights of True have been sold to Vertigo Productions (Finland), and its adaptation for the stage premiered at Helsinki KOM Theatre in November 2011.

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J.P. Ahonen

JP lives in Tampere, Finland, where he writes and draws comics. He enjoys cooking, making music and getting tattooed but dislikes writing biographies in third person.

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Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer was a British author who lived in Italy.

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Kari Hotakainen

Kari Hotakainen is a Finnish writer. Hotakainen started his writing career as a reporter in Pori. In 1986, he moved to Helsinki. He became a full-time writer in 1996. He has two children with his wife, sound technician Tarja Laaksonen, whom he married in 1983. He has also worked as a copywriter and as a columnist for the Helsingin Sanomat.
His father, Keijo Hotakainen, worked as a storekeeper and photographer while his mother, Meeri Ala-Kuusisto, worked as a sales clerk. Kari Hotakainen passed his matriculation examination in 1976 and graduated from Rautalampi High School the same year. He has a Bachelor of Arts.

Hotakainen kicked off his career as an author in the beginning of the 1980s by writing poetry. His debut collection Harmittavat tak

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Kati Närhi

Kati Närhi on suomalainen kuvittaja ja sarjakuvapiirtäjä. Närhi valmistui taiteen kandidaatiksi Taideteollisesta korkeakoulusta vuonna 2001, mitä ennen hän opiskeli kirjallisuustiedettä ja estetiikkaa Helsingin yliopistossa. Närhin albumi Seitsemäs vieras voitti Sarjakuva-Finlandian vuonna 2016.

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Marko Annala

Marko Annala (s. 1972) on metalliyhtye Mokoman keulakuvana tunnettu artisti ja kirjailija.

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Timo K. Mukka

Timo Kustaa Mukka was a Finnish author who wrote about the lives of people in Lapland.

He was born in Bollnäs, Sweden. During his life Mukka studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and completed nine novels, written in a lyrical prose style, about the harsh conditions in Lapland, the region of his childhood and of most of his adult life. These books were published in the years between 1964 and 1970.

In the early 1960s there sprang up a movement in Finnish literature called spontaneous-confessional fiction. It was heavily influenced by the writings of Henry Miller. Its two most prominent representatives were the enfants terribles of modern Finnish literature, poet and translator Pentti Saarikoski and author Hannu Salama. Among the writ

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Petri Tamminen

Petri Tamminen (s. 1966) on valmistunut Tampereen yliopistosta pääaineenan tiedotusoppi. Tamminen asuu perheineen Vääksyssä ja työskentelee vapaana kirjailijana.

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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Henri Hyppönen

Author also publishes Finnish versions under the name: Henkka Hyppönen

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Jari Järvelä

ENG: Jari Järvelä has written novels, short stories, essays, radio plays and plays. He currently resides at Kotka, living between the ocean and a river, likes both cities on harbours and train stations. His favourite cities are Napoli and Marseille, in both of which nothing is working yet everything works out, everybody believes in miracles and not for nothing. His hobbies include swimming, wines and history (even the one that can be found on a roadside or on rusty tin cans on an old fridge on an attic). Most of all, Järvelä is into punk music and paintings from 1500's renaissance, both of which most of his friends dislike strongly. Both of them include that frenzied indulging which makes art something more than life, or at least more sensi

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Silvia Hosseini

Silvia Hosseini on suomalais-iranilainen esseisti, kriitikko ja äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden opettaja. Hän on koulutukseltaan filosofian maisteri, ja tekee väitöskirjaa Leonard Cohenin laululyriikasta.

Hosseini on ollut kirjallisuus- ja kulttuurilehti Särön vieraileva päätoimittaja. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Pölyn ylistys ilmestyi helmikuussa 2018 ja palkittiin Kalevi Jäntin palkinnolla. Teos oli myös Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkintoehdokkaana.

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Xi Xi

Xi Xi (Chinese name: 西西) was born in Shanghai in 1937 and moved to Hong Kong in 1950. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in the Sinophone world. Hailed by critics as a major and unique voice in global Sinophone literature and a stylistic innovator across genres, she has published more than 30 books of different genres in addition to newspaper and magazine columns and screenplays. Xi Xi is the winner of the 6th Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in 2019.

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Marko Hautala

Marko Hautala’s unique blend of psychological horror and realism has attracted readers of all genres, earning him a reputation as the Finnish Stephen King. His first novel The Self-Illuminated Ones (Itsevalaisevat, 2008) received the Tiiliskivi Prize, and in 2010 Hautala received the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for Young Authors for Shrouds (Käärinliinat, 2009). He was also nominated for the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2013 for Seeing Eyes (Unikoira, 2012).

Hautala's literary sensibility was formed at an early age by horror novels and later on by his experiences working as a nurse at a mental institute in the early 1990's. The Black Tongue (Kuokkamummo, 2015) is Hautala's first novel to appear in English.

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Sami Tissari

Sami Tissari (1971) on pohjoiskarjalainen metsuri, filosofi ja kommunistisen kasvatuksen saanut vapaa-ajattelija. Jäiseen puun juureen polvistuessaan Tissari miettii kvanttiteorian suhdetta todellisuuteen. (Aula & co)

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Eeva Kilpi

Written by: Katarina Blomqvist, Liisa Enwald

Eeva Kilpi comes from eastern Karelia, east of Finland's present-day border with Russia, studied English philology at the University of Helsinki, and worked as a teacher before she began to earn a living from her writing. From 1970 to 1975, she chaired the PEN club in Finland.

She made her debut with the short story collection Noidanlukko in 1959. She wrote about the evacuation of the population of Karelia in Elämä edestakasin, 1964, and Elämän evakkona, 1983, as well as in her autobiographical novel trilogy Talvisodan aika (1989; Eng. tr. The Time of the Winter War), Välirauha ikävöinnin aika, 1990, which describes the interwar period, and Jatkosodan aika, 1993.

Her experimental, erotic novel Tamar

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Minja Koskela

Minja Koskela (s. 1987) on suomalainen tutkija, kirjailija, bloggaaja ja musiikinopettaja, joka on osallistunut yhteiskunnalliseen keskusteluun muun muassa tasa-arvosta ja vihapuheesta.

Koskelalta on ilmestynyt tietokirja Ennen kaikkea feministi (Karisto 2019). Kirja käsittelee muun muassa intersektionaalista feminismiä, neljännen aallon feminismiä, äitimyyttiä, sukupuolen moninaisuutta, populaarikulttuuria ja vihapuhetta.

Vuonna 2020 kustantamo S&S julkaisi Koskelan ja Elina Tuomen tietokirjan Toisin tehty — keskusteluja koulusta, jossa pohditaan muun muassa sitä, miten koulusta voisi tehdä yhä tasa-arvoisemman.

Vuonna 2021 Koskelalta julkaistiin Kustannusyhtiö Inton alla teos nimeltä Äidiksi tuleminen, joka käsittelee keskenmenoa, raskautta

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Hana Andronikova

Hana Andronikova byla česká spisovatelka.

Vystudovala gymnázium ve Zlíně, pak Filozofickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, obory angličtina a čeština. Po ukončení studia pracovala jako personální manažerka v zahraničních i českých firmách. V roce 1999 odešla z podnikatelské sféry a věnovala se literatuře.

Autorčin debut Zvuk slunečních hodin získal v roce 2001 Literární cenu Knižního klubu a v roce 2002 cenu Magnesia Litera v kategorii objev roku. V březnu 2008 plánovala vydat nový román s pracovním názvem Blues v nakladatelství Odeon. Nakonec v roce 2010 vydala knihu Nebe nemá dno a v roce 2011 za tuto knihu obdržela Cenu čtenářů Magnesia Litera 2011.

Napsala divadelní hry Tanec přes plot (2008, spolu s Janou Svobodovou), Pakosti a draban

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Harald Welzer

Harald Welzer ist Direktor des Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Forschungsprofessor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
"Der Spiegel" stellte ihn im August 2007 in seiner Serie herausragender Wissenschaftler als "produktiven Quergeist" einem breiten Publikum vor.
(Klappentextinformation aus "Klimakriege" 2008)

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Miloš Urban

Vystudoval moderní filologii na katedrách anglistiky a nordistiky na FF UK v Praze (1986–1992), v letech 1992–2000 pracoval jako redaktor v nakladatelství Mladá fronta, od roku 2001 v nakladatelství Argo, kde rok zastával funkci šéfredaktora.
Vydal šest románů, několik novel a sbírku povídek; jeho knihy byly přeloženy do němčiny, španělštiny, holandštiny, maďarštiny, ruštiny a italštiny. Napsal také divadelní hry (Trochu lásky a Nože a růže) a několik povídek otištěných v různých časopisech (např. Host) a v povídkových knihách nakladatelství Listen.

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Pauli Tapio

Pauli Tapio (s. 1986) on Helsingissä asuva, Oulussa syntynyt kääntäjä, tohtoriopiskelija, kriitikko ja runouslehti Tuli&Savun entinen toimittaja. Hän on opiskellut kirjallisuutta ja venäjää.

Tapio on kirjoittanut esseitä ja arvosteluja kirjallisuus-, sanoma- ja aikakauslehtiin. Tapio kääntää erityisesti venäläistä kirjallisuutta – niin proosaa kuin runouttakin.
(teksti Poesia-kustantamon sivustolta)

Pauli Tapio voitti Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon (2017) esikoisrunoteoksellaan Varpuset ja aika.

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Maria Pettersson

Maria Pettersson is a Finnish journalist.

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Antti Rönkä

Antti Rönkä on kotoisin Vääksystä. Hän on opiskellut kirjallisuutta ja kasvatustieteitä Jyväskylän yliopistossa ja harrastanut yleisurheilua ja pianonsoittoa. Hänen omakohtainen esikoisromaaninsa Jalat ilmassa käsittelee koulukiusaamista.

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Esko Valtaoja

Esko Jorma Johannes Valtaoja (pronounced [ˈesko ˈʋɑltɑˌojɑ]) (1951, Kemi) is a Finnish astronomer and writer. Valtaoja works as a professor at the University of Turku where he studies quasars.

In 2002 his book Kotona maailmankaikkeudessa (At Home in the Cosmos, 2001) won the Finlandia Prize for the best non-fiction work. After this he became a popular guest speaker at TV shows, science fiction conventions, popular science seminars etc. Part of his popularity comes from his ability to present complex scientific theories and ideas in a manner that is both understandable and entertaining to the general audience.

Since then, Valtaoja has written another book, Avoin tie (The Open Road, 2004), in which he explains his visions of the future. The boo

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Christopher Perkins

Chris Perkins is a Canadian American game designer and editor who is known for his work on Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, currently as the senior story designer.

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Ondrej Štefánik

Zakladateľ reklamnej agentúry Respect APP, idea maker a copywriter ovenčený mnohými oceneniami za reklamu (okrem iného aj Copywriter roka), autor výroku o žemli vo videu PPE Fiction, Ondrej Štefánik, debutoval zbierkou poviedok Pštrosí muž.

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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.

Teksti Otavan sivustolta

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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.

Toimittajana Häkkinen on

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Veikka Lahtinen

Veikka Lahtinen is a freelance journalist, researcher, and book lover based in Helsinki, Finland.

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Antti Nylén

Antti Nylén is a Finnish essayist and a translator who specializes in French literature of the 19th century.

He defines himself as a catholic, a feminist and a vegan.

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Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen is Finland’s best kept literary secret…

In the early 70’s, when he was five, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen lived in a block of flats by the Jyväskylä’s (a city in Central Finland) old cemetery and believed in vampires.

In the early 80’s he still had vampire dreams and fell in love with Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut’s Jules et Jim.

Ten years later Pasi wrote his first short stories. He wan the writing competition of SciFi and fantasy stories four times and then decided to become a writer.

Now he is an author, but he is also a Finnish and literature teacher in upper secondary school and the father of three sons.

He hasn’t stopped loving vampires, Jeanne Moreau and old film classics.

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Helen Thomson

Helen Thomson is a writer and consultant with New Scientist. She has also written for the Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC Future and Psychologies and has won various awards for her journalism.

Her research has taken her from coffee with five psychopathic mass murderers in Broadmoor to poking around in the Large Hadron Collider.

She has exclusively revealed plans for the world's first head transplant, learned how to rule at roulette, had her fat zapped, scrubbed up for a cutting-edge prostate cancer operation and watched a paralysed man walk for the first time using a mind-controlled exoskeleton.

But her greatest fascination remains writing about the brain, especially those that don't look like everyone else's.

Helen has a BSc in Neuroscience and an

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Eishes Chayil

Eishes Chayil is a pseudonym for a descendant of some of the main founders and leaders of Chassidut in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Poland. She was raised in a world of Chassidic schools, synagogues, and summer camps. She works as a journalist for two international orthodox papers located in Brooklyn, New York.

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Anja Kauranen

Books by Anja Kauranen have been published with the name Anja Snellman since 1997.
Vuodesta 1997 Anja Kaurasen teokset on julkaistu nimellä Anja Snellman.

EN: Anja Kauranen (Snellman since 1997) is a successful Finnish author. She grew up in neighborhood of Kallio in Helsinki. She went to the Aleksis Kivi school and Alppilan Yhteislyseo. Between 1973 and 1981 Kauranen studied in the University of Helsinki.

Her first book Sonja O. kävi täällä was published in 1981. It is considered her literary breakthrough. Her literary career has continued 30 years and she has published over 20 books. Her works have been translated to 16 languages. In 2007 Snellman got the Pro Finlandia medal for her literary work.

Since the beginning of 90s Snellman has live

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Alexandra Salmela

Alexandra (Saša) Salmela on syntynyt vuonna 1980 Bratislavassa, silloisessa Tšekkoslovakiassa.

Pienestä pitäen hän on kirjoittanut lukuisia laadultaan hyvin eritasoisia runoja, satuja, kertomuksia ja draamoja, osallistunut moneen kirjoituskilpailuun, saanut muutaman tunnustuksen ja voittanutkin kerran. Vuoden 1999 jälkeen hän ei ole onneksi enää kirjoittanut yhtään runoa.

Hän on valmistunut teatteridramaturgiksi Bratislavan Teatterikorkeakoulusta ja suomen kielen ja kirjallisuuden maisteriksi Prahan Kaarlen yliopistosta. Nykyään hän asuskelee kaupungin ja erämaan välimaastossa ja pohtii, mitä tekisi elämälleen.

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Veikko Huovinen

Veikko Huovinen was a Finnish novelist known for his realism, pacifism, sharp intellect, and peculiar humor. He wrote 37 books.

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Petteri Järvinen

Petteri Järvinen is a Finnish information technology expert, public speaker, author and a columnist.

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Koko Hubara

Koko Hubara is the founder of Ruskeat Tytöt Media, a freelance writer, a translator and a teacher of writing. Her debut, Ruskeat tytöt, an essay collection, was published in 2017.

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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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Tomi Kontio

Tomi Kontio (s. 1966 Helsingissä) on ikäpolvensa arvostetuimpia ja kiitetyimpiä runoilijoita. Kontion runoja on käännetty muun muassa englanniksi, espanjaksi, ranskaksi, ruotsiksi, saksaksi, italiaksi, unkariksi ja viroksi. Hän on ollut Runeberg-palkintoehdokkaana novellikokoelmallaan Säädyttömät (Tammi, 1994) ja romaanillaan Uumen (Tammi, 1995).

Kontio on julkaissut myös lastenkirjoja. Yhdessä kuvittaja Elina Warstan kanssa tehty Isäni on hipsteri (2022) oli ehdolla arvostetun Arvid Lydecken -palkinnon saajaksi. Kontion ja Warstan Koira nimeltään kissa oli puolestaan ehdolla Pohjoismaiden neuvoston vuoden 2016 lasten- ja nuortenkirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Saman kirjasarjan kolmas osa Koira nimeltään kissa tapaa kissan (2019) oli Finland

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Aila Meriluoto

Aila Meriluoto was a Finnish poet, writer and translator.

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