Magdalena Hai
Magdalena Hai is a Finnish author of SF&F and children’s tales. Hai’s prose, long and short, has been nominated for several awards (Finlandia Junior Award, The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize, LukuVarkaus, Topelius, Arvid Lydecken, Runeberg Junior) and has won the Kirjava Kettu, Stalker, Atorox, Blogistanian Kuopus, Kaarina Helakisa and the Finnish Literary Export Prize (Tulenkantaja). Her latest YA-series, Royaumen aikakirjat (The Chronicles of Royaume), includes so far two novels, Kolmas sisar (The Third Sister, Otava 2018) and Isetin solmu (The Knot of Iset, Otava 2021). Her and Teemu Juhani's Painajaispuoti/The Little Shop of Nightmares series has been sold to 24 language areas.
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Henna Helmi Heinonen
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Salla Simukka
EN: Salla Simukka is Finnish writer and translator who lives in Tampere. She has studied Nordic philology, Finnish language, general literature, creative writing and women's studies at the University of Turku.
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Besides books, Simukka writes book reviews for the newspapers Helsinkin Sanomat and Hämeen Sanomat.
FI: Salla Simukka on Tampereella asuva suomalainen kirjailija ja suomentaja. Hän on opiskellut Turun yliopistossa pohjoismaista filologiaa, suomen kieltä, yleistä kirjallisuustiedettä, luovaa kirjoittamista ja naistutkimusta.
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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).
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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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Salla Simukka
EN: Salla Simukka is Finnish writer and translator who lives in Tampere. She has studied Nordic philology, Finnish language, general literature, creative writing and women's studies at the University of Turku.
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Besides books, Simukka writes book reviews for the newspapers Helsinkin Sanomat and Hämeen Sanomat.
FI: Salla Simukka on Tampereella asuva suomalainen kirjailija ja suomentaja. Hän on opiskellut Turun yliopistossa pohjoismaista filologiaa, suomen kieltä, yleistä kirjallisuustiedettä, luovaa kirjoittamista ja naistutkimusta.
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Dess Terentjeva
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Malin Falch
Malin Falch er en norsk tegneserieskaper og illustratør.
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I 2018 debuterte hun med sin første bok «Nordlys: Reisen til Jotunheimen».
Tidligere har hun bodd i San Francisco hvor hun hadde fast jobb i spilldesignselskapet Zynga. -
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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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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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Vehka Kurjenmiekka
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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.
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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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After several years of working in finance, Ralph moved with his wife-to-be Lisa Swerling, to Cerf Island (population of 52) in the Seychelles, where they (very remotely) started their illustration licensing business Last Lemon. Later based in London and now northern California, they have worked with many publishers including Chronicle Books, Penguin and Andrews McMeel in the US, and Harper Collins and DK in the UK.
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Alex T. Smith
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Fabian Christensen
Fabian Christensen (f. 1994) er utdannet
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skuespiller og har medvirket i en rekke teater,
film- og TV-produksjoner. Kompis er hans første
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FI: Kirjailija ja sanataideopettaja Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen on syntynyt Lempäälässä pienessä Säijän kylässä 26.12.1977. Hän on opiskellut Tampereen yliopistossa, josta valmistui filosofian maisteriksi vuonna 2003.
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Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen julkaisi esikoisteoksensa vuonna 2004, jonka jälkeen hän on toiminut vapaana kirjailijana ja sanataideopettajana eri puolella Suomea. -
Mina Lystad
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In her work she explores subjects such as fear and anxiousness, and feeling alone in the midst of great emotion. -
Paula Noronen
EN: Paula Noronen is finnish writer, radio presenter, TV-performer and author.
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FI: Paula Karoliina Noronen (s. 1974) on suomalainen radiojuontaja, televisioesiintyjä, käsikirjoittaja ja kirjailija. Noronen tuli tunnetuksi lukuisista Radiomafiassa esiintyneistä hahmoistaan. Näitä olivat muun muassa Mirva, Tarja Kulho ja Sirkka-Liisa. Radiomafian lopettamisen jälkeen Noronen on esiintynyt televisiossa. Hän juonsi vuonna 2004 Subtv:n Suoraa huutoa! -ohjelmaa. Hän on esittänyt Sartsaa Yleisradion TV2:n Sartsa ja Timppa -sketseissä, sekä esiintynyt Subtv:n sketsiohjelmassa Pimeä puoli. Noronen opiskelee Taideteollisessa korkeakoulussa tv- ja elokuvakäsikirjoituslinjalla.
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Reetta Vuokko-Syrjänen
I am an SF author from Tampere, Finland. I have received the national Atorox award for best SF short story in 2020, 2021 and 2024. My first novel was published in June 2022.
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Olen spekulatiivisen fiktion kirjoittaja Tampereelta. Olen voittanut parhaalle suomenkieliselle tieteis- tai fantasianovellille myönnettävän Atorox-palkinnon vuosina 2020, 2021 ja 2024. Esikoisromaanini Syntykeho, eli miten juosta pakoon ilman jalkoja ilmestyi kesäkuussa 2022 Osuuskumma-kustannukselta. -
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Kathryn Simmonds’ poetry collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
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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).
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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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Miira Luhtavaara
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Marisha Rasi-Koskinen
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Rasi-Koskisen esikoisromaani Katariina (2011) sai paljon tunnustusta väkevästä kielestä ja monia tulkintoja avaavasta kerronnasta. Hänen toinen teoksensa Valheet voitti vuoden 2013 Tiiliskivi-palkinnon ja sitä kiitettiin erityisesti hätkähdyttävästä rakenteestaan. Kolmas romaani Vaaleanpunainen meri oli yksi vuoden 2015 Runeberg-palkinnon ehdokkaista.
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