Pentti Saarikoski

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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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  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.
  
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  Milan Kundera

  Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
  
  Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism.
  

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  Thomas Bernhard

  Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century.
  
  Although internationally he’s most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor.
  
  He started publishing in the year 1963 with the novel Frost. His last published work, appearing in the year 1986, was Extinction. Some of his best-known works include The Loser

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  Italo Svevo

  Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
  
  A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

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  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.
  
  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.
  
  Jansson's Moomin books have been translated in

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  E.M. Forster

  Edward Morgan Forster, generally published as E.M. Forster, was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. His humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
  
  He had five novels published in his lifetime, achieving his greatest success with A Passage to India (1924) which takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.
  
  Forster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of person

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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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• William Heinesen

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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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• Paavo Haavikko

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• Albert Londres

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  Pirkko Saisio

  See also Saisio's pseudonyms: Jukka Larsson, Eva Wein
  
  Pirkko Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. Saisiolla on laaja kirjallinen tuotanto, joka romaanien ja näytelmien ohella käsittää monenlaisia tekstejä elokuvakäsikirjoituksista aina balettilibretoihin asti. Saisio on kirjoittanut näytelmiä niin teatteriin kuin televisioonkin, ja lisäksi hän ohjaa ja näyttelee itsekin. Saisio suoritti Suomen Teatterikoulun näyttelijän tutkinnon 1975 ja toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgian professorina 1997–2002.

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• Leena Krohn

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  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.
  
  Minna Canth is the first woman to receive her own flag day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007. It is also the day

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• Eeva-Liisa Manner

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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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  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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• A.W. Yrjänä

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  Herman Koch

  Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.
  
  Koch was born in Arnhem, and later moved to Amsterdam. He studied Russian for some months, and lived in Finland for a while. Nowadays he is married to the Spanish Amalia, and has a son, Pablo (1994).
  
  

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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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  Märta Tikkanen

  Märta Tikkanen (b. April 3, 1935) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer. Born in Helsinki she worked as a reporter for Hufvudstadsbladet from 1956 to 1961. She graduated from the University of Helsinki, Master of Arts in 1958 and received a Master of Philosophy in 1961. Tikkanen was married to the writer Henrik Tikkanen. A film based on her book Manrape (Män kan inte våldtas, "Men Can't Be Raped"), directed by Jörn Donner, was released in 1978.

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• Sirpa Kähkönen

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  Theis Ørntoft

  Theis Ørntoft (født 1984) debuterede i 2009 med den usædvanligt stilsikre digtsamling Yeahsuiten. Debuten indbragte ham Danmarks største debutantpris Munch-Christensens Kulturlegat. Han har studeret Litteraturvidenskab ved Københavns Universitet og gik i perioden fra 2007 til 2009 på Forfatterskolen. Kort efter han dimitterede fra Forfatterskolen udkom Yeahsuiten på Gyldendal. Kun en enkelt anmelder brokkede sig over den unge digters lidt for smarte og alt for ungdommelige sprogbrug. Men som anmelder på Information Kamilla Löfström skrev i sin gennemgang af årets debutanter: ”Hvad er man da også for en sølle debutant, hvis ikke man kan få ophidset bare én kritiker med sin kække sprogbrug?”. I efterfølgeren Digte 2014, der udkom fem år sener

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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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  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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  Ia Genberg

  Ia Gabriella Genberg (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish journalist and novelist.
  
  Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she debuted as a writer in 2012 with the novel Söta fredag ("Sweet Friday"). Her fourth novel, Detaljerna ("The Details"), won the August Prize in 2022, the year of its publication. The English translation, by Kira Josefsson, was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
  
  Author Picture: Sara Mac Key

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  W.G. Sebald

  Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. His works are largely concerned with the themes of memory, loss of memory, and identity (both personal and collective) and decay (of civilizations, traditions or physical objects). They are, in particular, attempts to reconcile himself with, and deal in literary terms with, the trauma of the Second World War and its effect on the German people.
  
  At the time of his death at the age of only 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors, and was tipped as a possible future recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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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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• Mads Ejsing

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