Kjell Westö
Kjell Westö is a Finnish author and journalist. Westö writes in Swedish.
In 2006, Westö won the prestigious Finlandia Prize for his novel Där vi en gång gått . He has been long-listed for the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Leena Parkkinen
FI: Leena Parkkinen on Turussa asuva suomalainen kirjailija, jonka esikoisromaani Sinun jälkeesi, Max ilmestyi maaliskuussa 2009 ja sai Helsingin Sanomain kirjallisuuspalkinnon vuoden parhaana suomenkielisenä esikoisteoksena.
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Hän on opiskellut Turun taideakatemiassa elokuvakäsikirjoittamista ja mainonnan suunnittelua sekä Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa kirjoittamista. Parkkinen on työskennellyt mainostoimittajana, kustannusyhtiössä ja tarjoilijana. Hänen isänsä on kirjailija Jukka Parkkinen.
EN: Leena Parkkinen is Finnish writer who lives in Turku. Her first book was published in 2009 and it won the Helsingin Sanomat Literary Award as the best Finnish debut book published that year.
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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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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 -
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.
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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.
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Göran Rosenberg
Göran Jakob Rosenberg is a Swedish journalist and author. He is the son of David and Hala Rosenberg from Łódz in Poland, who both came to Sweden after having survived concentration camps during World War II.
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Rosenberg has worked at Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television; 1979–85 he was host and reporter of the actuality-program Magasinet. In 1990 he founded the magazine Moderna Tider which he was editor-in-chief of until 1999, and he also hosted the actuality-program with the same name which was broadcast in TV3. 1991–2011 he worked as columnist at Dagens Nyheter. He workes as honorary degree at the University of Gothenburg.
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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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Malin Haawind
Malin Haawind romandebuterade 2021 med boken De kom från öar som tar sin början strax efter krigsslutet 1945. De kom från öar handlar om vuxenblivande och familj, om systerskap, arbete och längtan. Det är första delen i en romantrilogi som formar berättelsen om en familj i folkhemmet, från små kustsamhällen till nybyggda höghus i industristaden. Andra delen i serien, Och havet gav igen kommer i september 2022, och tredje delen, In mot stenig strand, hösten 2023.
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Malin Haawind har tidigare skrivit fyra fackböcker om gräl, föräldraskap, mat och smuts. Hon är även verksam som redaktör och skrivarkursledare. -
Pajtim Statovci
Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.
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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 -
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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Annika Norlin
Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.
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Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide. -
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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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 -
Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.
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Ramqvist har varit chefredaktör för tidskriften Arena och kritiker i Dagens Nyheter. Hon blev allmänt känd när hon publicerade ett privat brev från Ulf Lundell i antologin Fittstim. Hon har även medverkat i tidskriften Bang. Ramqvist är gift med journalisten Fredrik Virtanen.
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Jussi Valtonen
Jussi Valtonen (s. 1974) on helsinkiläinen kirjailija ja psykologi. Hän on aiemmin julkaissut kaksi romaania ja novellikokoelman. Hän viimeistelee neuropsykologian alaan kuuluvaa väitöskirjaa, johon liittyvästä tutkimuksesta hän on tehnyt suuren osan Yhdysvalloissa.
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Hänen romaaninsa Siipien kantamat sijoittui Bonnierin romaanikilpailussa toiseksi ja sai sekä kriitikoilta että kirjabloggareilta erittäin myönteisen vastaanoton. He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät sai vuoden 2014 Finlandia-palkinnon. -
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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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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Niels Fredrik Dahl
Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.
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Romanene "På vei til en venn" og "I fjor sommer" har fått god mottakelse både hos kritikere og publikum, og er oversatt til dansk, svensk, tysk og nederlandsk. "På vei til en venn" ble belønnet med Brageprisen i 2002. Dahl har også skrevet manus til flere TV-serier, blant annet Hotel Cæsar og Soria Moria. Han er gift med Linn Ullmann.
Dahl er en av Norges mest markante forfatterne og har utgitt noveller, dikt, gjendiktning og skuespill. Hans første roman "Journalisten" utkom i 1997. For romanen "På vei til en venn" (2002) ble han tildelt Brageprisen. Han ble også nominert til Kritikerprisen og P2-lytternes pris. Både denne og romanen "I fjor sommer" (2003) er oversatt til en rekke språk -
Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
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In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish. -
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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Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York.
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He made a celebrated debut in 2003 with Ett öga rött/One Eye Red, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling paperback of any category in 2004. For Ett öga rött/One Eye Red Jonas Hassen Khemiri received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut, Sweden’s most important award for a first book. In the fall of 2007 the film based on Ett öga rött/One Eye Red will open in Swedish cinemas.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s second novel, Montecore, was published to unanimous raving reviews in 2006. In strong international competition it was awarded -
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.
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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.
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Sergei Lebedev
Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. Lebedev is a poet, essayist and journalist. His novels have been translated into many languages and received great acclaim in the English-speaking world.
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Maria Peura
Maria Peura (s. 1970) julkaisi esikoisromaaninsa On rakkautes ääretön vuonna 2001. Se valittiin Finlandia-palkintoehdokkaaksi ja sai Olvi-, Nuori Aleksis- ja Hyvä teko lapselle -palkinnon. Vuonna 2004 häneltä ilmestyi lasten runokokoelma Mimmi Moun ilotaika (Tammi) ja kaksi vuotta myöhemmin hänen toinen romaaninsa Valon reunalla (Teos), joka on julkaistu myös englanniksi. Peuran kolmas romaani Vedenaliset ilmestyi vuonna 2008, ja samana vuonna hän valmistui dramaturgiksi. Vuonna 2010 Peura kirjoitti loistavan tietokirjan kirjoittamisesta, Antaumuksella keskeneräinen on kirja kirjailijan ammatista.
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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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Peter Freuchen
Peter Freuchen, born Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen was a Danish explorer, writer and traveler.
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He spent many years in Thule, Greenland, living with the Polar Inuit. He worked with Knud Rasmussen, crossing the Greenland icecap with him. In 1935, Freuchen visited South Africa, and by the end of the decade, he had travelled to Siberia.
In 1938 he founded The Adventurer's Club (Eventyrernes Klub in Danish), which still exists. They later honoured his memory by planting an oak tree and creating an Eskimo cairn near the place, where he left Denmark for Greenland back in 1906.
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Jussi Valtonen
Jussi Valtonen (s. 1974) on helsinkiläinen kirjailija ja psykologi. Hän on aiemmin julkaissut kaksi romaania ja novellikokoelman. Hän viimeistelee neuropsykologian alaan kuuluvaa väitöskirjaa, johon liittyvästä tutkimuksesta hän on tehnyt suuren osan Yhdysvalloissa.
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Hänen romaaninsa Siipien kantamat sijoittui Bonnierin romaanikilpailussa toiseksi ja sai sekä kriitikoilta että kirjabloggareilta erittäin myönteisen vastaanoton. He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät sai vuoden 2014 Finlandia-palkinnon. -
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.
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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.
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Marine Carteron
Marine Carteron est née en 1972. Elle a suivi des études d’histoire de l’Art et d’archéologie. Actuellement domiciliée en Rhône-Alpes, elle enseigne tout en profitant de sa petite famille et en noircissant du papier pour les Éditions du Rouergue.
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Philip Teir
Philip Teir (s. 1980 Pietarsaaressa) on Hufvudstadsbladetin kulttuuritoimituksen päällikkö, joka kirjoittaa itse mm. kirjallisuus-, musiikki- ja televisiokritiikkiä. Hän on toimittanut useita kirjallisuusantologioita ja kirjoittaa myös ruotsalaiseen sanomalehti Expresseniin.
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Teirin esikoisteos, runokokoelma Någonting ur hennes mun faller i min mun, ilmestyi 2007. Novellikokoelmassa Donner-ryhmä yhdistyvät urbaani arki ja absurdit sävyt. -
Linda Olsson
Linda Olsson lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Her debut 'Let me sing you gentle songs' was published in September 2005 in New Zealand. Since then the rights for it have been sold to many countries. It has now been published in the US and Canada under the title 'Astrid and Veronika' as well as in her country of birth, Sweden (Låt mig sjunga dig milda sånger).
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Marja-Liisa Vartio
Marja-Liisa Orvokki Vartio (née Sairanen, 1955-1966 Haavikko; 11 September 1924 Sääminki, Finland – 17 June 1966 Savonlinna, Finland) was a Finnish poet and prose writer. Her writing career was short but influential. She was one of the leading modernist writers in Finland.
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She studied art history and modern literature in University of Helsinki. She married an art dealer in 1945 and was introduced into Helsinki's writing and artistic circles. Her first collection s of poetry were published in 1952. In 1955 she married writer Paavo Haavikko. Around that time she started to write prose. Her prose is what she is most remembered for. Her work deals with dreams, fantasy and myth, and avoids personal comments and explanations.
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Veera Antsalo
on syntynyt Helsingissä 1975. Ennen kirjailijanuraansa hän on opiskellut humanistisia aineita Helsingin yliopistossa ja työskennellyt mm. siivoojana ja lipunmyyjänä.
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2012 ilmestynyt esikoisteos, proosarunokokoelma Sähkökatkoksen aikaan oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon ja Tanssivan karhun saajaksi. Toinen teos Pölyn historia (2015) oli Toisinkoinen-ehdokkaana. Runoelma Imago ilmestyi 2018.
Antsalon runouden ja proosan välimaastoon sijoittuville teoksille on ominaista jaettujen kulttuuristen kuvastojen hajottaminen osiin ja mosaiikkimainen yhdistely, anekdootit, henkilöhahmot, fantasia ja surrealismi. -
Mauri Kunnas
Mauri Tapio Kunnas is a Finnish cartoonist and children's author. Kunnas is most famous for his numerous children's books, illustrated by himself and featuring anthropomorphic animals.
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Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
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Since leaving office, Persson has been a consultant for the Stockholm-based PR firm JKL. He published a book in October 2007, Min väg, mina val (My path, my choices). -