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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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.
Noronen on kirjoittanut myös Kyllä Sartsa osaa! -kirjan sekä aloittanut uude -
Sylvia Vanden Heede
Sylvia grew up in Flemish family
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She submitted her first book "De Spiegelplas" in 1985
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a beloved British author, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, best known for his enchanting and often darkly humorous children's books that have captivated generations of readers around the world. Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl led a life marked by adventure, tragedy, creativity, and enduring literary success. His vivid imagination and distinctive storytelling style have made him one of the most celebrated children's authors in modern literature.
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Before becoming a writer, Dahl lived a life filled with excitement and hardship. He served as a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II, surviving a near-fatal crash in the Libyan desert. His wartime experiences and travels deeply influenced his story -
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German illustrator and storyteller, who writes fantasy for all ages of readers. Amongst her best known books is the Inkheart trilogy. Many of Cornelia's titles are published all over the world and translated into more than 30 languages. She has two children, two birds and a very old dog and lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen -
Elias Lönnrot
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.
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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.
He got a job as district doctor of Kajaani in Northern Finland during a time of famine in the district. The famine had prompted the previous doctor to resign, making it possible for a very young doctor to get such a posit -
Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.
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Awards:
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Kjell Westö
Kjell Westö is a Finnish author and journalist. Westö writes in Swedish.
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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. -
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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Minna Canth is the first woman to receive her own flag day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007. It is also the day -
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.
Kirjojen lisäksi Simukka kirjoittaa kirja-arvosteluja Helsingin Sanomiin ja Hämeen Sanomiin. -
Trude Teige
Trude Johanne Teige is a Norwegian journalist and author of crime novels.
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Kaj Korkea-aho
Kaj Korkea-Aho (s. 1983) on tuttu radiosta, tv:stä ja musiikkimaailmasta. Opiskellessaan maisteriksi Turussa hän elätti itsensä radiokoomikkona sekä tv-juontajana ja -käsikirjoittajana. Nyt Korkea-aho on toimitusjohtaja pienessä lystikkäässä yhtiössä, joka tuottaa tiedotusvälineille hullutuksia. Katso minuun pienehen (Se till mig som liten är), Korkea-ahon esikoisromaani palkittiin Söderströmsin kirjoituskilpailussa ja se ilmestyi sekä ruotsiksi että suomeksi syksyllä 2009.
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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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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 -
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Antti Heikkinen
Antti Juhani Heikkinen on suomalainen toimittaja ja kirjailija.
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Heikkisen esikoisromaani Pihkatappi ilmestyi vuonna 2013 ja sai Savonia-palkinnon vuonna 2014. Teos sai myös Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon ja oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Savonia-palkinnon jakaneen raadin mukaan ”Esikoiskirjailija Heikkinen osoittaa suomalaisen maaseudun olevan vielä voimissaan. Hänen kuvaamansa hahmot ovat tuttuja jo ensi virkkeestä. Lähihistoria ja suuri yhteiskunnallinen murros Kekkosen ajasta EU-Suomeen kuvautuvat elävällä tavalla pienen kylän kautta. Jatkumon katkeaminen sukutilan pidossa on kipeä asia molemmille osallisille sukupolville. Heikkinen on tuonut savon murteen kaunokirjallisuuteen uskottavasti. Hän kirjoittaa murteen -
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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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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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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