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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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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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Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (orig. Seitsemän veljestä). Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.

Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, into a tailor's family. In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted into the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater. His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic tale from the Kalevala.

From 1863 onwards, Kivi devoted his time to writing. He wrote 12 plays and a collection of poetry. The novel Seven Brothers took h

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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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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.

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.

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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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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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Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen

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.

Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen julkaisi esikoisteoksensa vuonna 2004, jonka jälkeen hän on toiminut vapaana kirjailijana ja sanataideopettajana eri puolella Suomea.

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Aaro Hellaakoski

Aaro Hellaakoski oli suomalainen runoilija, maantieteilijä ja maantieteen opettaja. Hän oli kotoisin Oulusta ja vietti osan nuoruudestaan Tampereen Pispalassa. Kirjailijana hän kirjoitti runoja, mutta myös proosaa ja esseitä. Runoilijana hän oli modernismin uranuurtajia Suomessa. Maantieteilijänä hän julkaisi tieteellisiä tutkimuksia ja osallistui oppikirjojen kirjoittamiseen.

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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.

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.

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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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Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (orig. Seitsemän veljestä). Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.

Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, into a tailor's family. In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted into the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater. His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic tale from the Kalevala.

From 1863 onwards, Kivi devoted his time to writing. He wrote 12 plays and a collection of poetry. The novel Seven Brothers took h

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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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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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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.

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

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Anna-Leena Härkönen

ENG: Anna-Leena Härkönen works as a writer and an actor, having acted as a scriptwriter too. Her works have been adapted into movies and plays, and Häräntappoase has been made into a television series of six episodes, too.

FI: Anna-Leena Härkönen on syntynyt 10.4.1965 Limingassa, kirjoittanut ylioppilaaksi vuonna 1985, opiskellut Teatterikorkeakoulussa ja Tampereen yliopiston näyttelijäntyön laitoksella ja valmistunut näyttelijäksi 1989. Anna-Leena Härkönen asuu Helsingissä ja toimii vapaana kirjailijana ja näyttelijänä.

Anna-Leena Härkönen on teini-ikäisestä alkaen kuulunut kulttuurielämämme huippuihin niin kirjailijana, käsikirjoittajana kuin näyttelijänäkin. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Häräntappoase palkittiin J. H. Erkon rahaston palkinnolla

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Edith Södergran

Edith Irene Södergran was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet.

Södergran was born in St Petersburg in 1892. In 1907 Edith's father died from tuberculosis, and in the following year Edith was also diagnosed with the disease. She was sent to a sanatorium, but did not feel at ease there. The feelings of captivity caused by the disease and the sanatorium are a recurring theme in her poetry.

In October 1911, Edith and her mother traveled to Arosa in Switzerland where Edith was examined by different doctors. After a few months, she was transferred to the Davos-Dorf sanatorium. In May 1912, her condition had improved enough for her to return home. Eventually, the disease returned and Edith Södergran died in 1923 in her home in Raivola. She was 31 years

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Frans Emil Sillanpää

Frans Emil Sillanpää was born on the 16th of September, 1888, at Ylä-Satakunta in the Hämeenkyrö Parish of Finland on a desolate croft of the same name. The cottage had been built by his parents, his father Frans Henrik Henriksson, who had moved there some ten years before from Kauvatsa in the Kumo Valley, and his mother, Loviisa Vilhelmiina Iisaksdotter, whose family had lived in the Hämeenkyrö Parish from times immemorial.

Sillanpää's parents had experienced all the trials and tribulations common to generations of settlers in those parts of Finland. Frosts had killed their seeds, farm animals had perished, and the farmer's children, too, had died, until only Frans Emil, the youngest of the offspring, was left.

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Helena Waris

Helena Waris (s. 1970) vietti lapsuutensa Pohjois-Karjalassa, ja muutti 13-vuotiaana Kiteeltä Mikkeliin, jossa kirjoitti ylioppilaaksi 1990. Esikoisromaani oli jo tuolloin työn alla, mutta tarvittiin puutarhurin opinnot ja pätkätyöt niin yrttitarhan opaskierrosten vetäjänä kuin hautaustoimiston apulaisenakin, sekä lyhyt ura käsityöläisyrittäjänä ja pidempi kotiäitiys ennen kuin aika oli kypsä Uniin piirretylle polulle.

Suurimmat sysäykset kirjan toteutumiselle ovat jäljitettävissä Oriveden Opistoon, Mikkelin Kirjoittajiin ja MTV3:n Suureen Seikkailuun. Waris asuu Ristiinassa 100-vuotiaassa puutalossa. Uusperheeseen kuuluu 4-7 lasta ja 2 koiraa. Hänen sydäntään lähellä ovat maatiaiskasvit, kansanperinne, remontointi, rock-musiikki ja leivonna

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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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Elmer Diktonius

Elmer Rafael Diktonius (1896-1961) was a Finnish poet and prosaist who wrote in Swedish. After and along with Edith Södergran, he was the most significant Finnish-Swedish modernist and a member of the 1920's young radicals' literary group Tulenkantajat, to whose newspaper he also contributed. There were both expressionist and imagist influences seen in his works.

Probably best known for experimental 1932 novel Janne Kubik: ett träsnitt i ord (translated into Finnish as Janne Kuutio: puupiirros sanoin by the author himself – ”John Cube: a woodcut put in words”), a story of a red 1918 Civil War fighter, Diktonius was politically active leftist and closely connected to the socialist leader figure Otto Wille Kuusinen. However, he did not take p

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Pentti Haanpää

Pentti Haanpää was a Finnish author.

Pentti Haanpää (1905–1955) oli kirjailijana erityisesti pohjoisen Suomen ja maaseudun yhteiskuntakriittinen ja realistinen kuvaaja. Häntä pidetään erityisesti novellitaiteen mestarina ja Haanpään tuotantoon kuuluukin kahdeksan romaanin lisäksi satoja novelleja. Hänet palkittiin Pro Finlandia -mitalilla vuonna 1948.

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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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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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Muriel Saville-Troike

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Veijo Meri

Veijo Meri was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focused on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor.
Born in Viipuri (today Vyborg, Russia), Meri graduated from secondary school in Hämeenlinna, then studied history and became an independent writer.
His diverse body of work included novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

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Aila Meriluoto

Aila Meriluoto was a Finnish poet, writer and translator.

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Pentti Saarikoski

Pentti Saarikoski was one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 1960s and 1970s. His body of work comprises poetry, autobiographical novels and translations, among them such classics as Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses.

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Minna Canth

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