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Joel Elstelä

Joel Tapani Elstelä on suomalainen teatteriohjaaja ja näytelmäkirjailija.

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Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa (now in the Republic of Somaliland) in 1981 and moved as a child to England in 1986, staying permanently when war broke out in Somalia.

She lives in London and her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, based on her father's memories of his travels in the 1930s, was published in 2010. It was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the 2010 Betty Trask Prize.

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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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Colette Gauthier-Villars

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist and actress Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novella Gigi, which provided the plot for a famous Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical. She started her writing career penning the influential Claudine novels of books. The novel Chéri is often cited as her masterpiece.

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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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Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Kurkov is a Russian and Ukrainian writer who writes in Russian (fiction) and Ukrainian (non-fiction).

Kurkov was born in the small town of Budogoszcz, Russia, on April 23, 1961. When he was young, his family moved to Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1983 Kurkov graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Academy of Foreign Languages and later also completed a training in Japanese translation.

Among Kurkov's most famous Russian novels are 'Smert postoronnego' (1996, translated into English in 2001 under the title 'Death and the Penguin') and 'Zakon ulitki' (2002, translated into English in 2005 as 'Penguin lost)'. Kurkov's only Ukrainian non-fiction book is 'Ruh "Emanus": istoriya solidarnosti' (2017).

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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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Colette

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist and actress Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novella Gigi, which provided the plot for a famous Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical. She started her writing career penning the influential Claudine novels of books. The novel Chéri is often cited as her masterpiece.

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Peter Høeg

Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer, and actor. He published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams (1988), to positive reviews. However, it was Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992), a million-copy best seller, that earned Høeg immediate and international literary celebrity. His books have been published in more than thirty countries.

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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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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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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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Lucia Berlin

Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.

Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.

Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also

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Hans Erich Nossack

Hans Erich Nossack war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, der zunächst als Lyriker und Dramatiker, später jedoch vor allem als Prosaautor in Erscheinung trat.

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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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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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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).

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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Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, HERESIES for the Royal Shakespeare Company, CLAM, CALL BLUE JANE, SHINY NYLON, HONEY BABY MIDDLE ENGLAND, PUSHING THE PRINCE INTO DENMARK and MACBETH-FALSE MEMORIES, some of which are published in LEVY: PLAYS 1 (Methuen)

Deborah wrote and published her first novel BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (Vintage), when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include, SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY, THE UNLOVED (Vintage) and BILLY and GIRL (Bloomsbury).

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. The most famous of his novels are Paradise, shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea, longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021 "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".

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Frode Grytten

Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.

Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.

As a journalist he has mainly worked for Bergens Tidende, the local newspaper of Bergen, Norway. He is also writing for the Oslo-based national newspaper Dagbladet.

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Petri Tamminen

Petri Tamminen (s. 1966) on valmistunut Tampereen yliopistosta pääaineenan tiedotusoppi. Tamminen asuu perheineen Vääksyssä ja työskentelee vapaana kirjailijana.

Tamminen tunnetaan lyhytproosan ja lakonisen huumorin mestarina. Esikoisteos, liuskan mittaisia tarinoita sisältävä kokoelma Elämiä ilmestyi vuonna 1994.

Suuren yleisön tietoisuuteen Tamminen nousi Enon opetukset -romaanin Finlandia-ehdokkuudella vuodella 2006.

Muita hyviä ominaisuuksia -teoksessaan (2010) Tamminen kuvaa ujoutta ja häpeää ja asettaa itsensä esimerkkihenkilöksi. ”Isänä en riitä, poikana en riitä, en riitä lentopalloilijana enkä remonttimiehenä, en ruoanlaittajana, en kirjallisuudentutkijana.”

Petri Tamminen on saanut Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon kirjastaan Piiloutujan maa.

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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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Maria Stepanova

Maria Mikhailovna Stepanova is a Russian poet, novelist, and journalist. She is the current editor of Colta.ru, an online publication specializing in arts and culture. In 2005, she won the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for poetry.

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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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Helmi Kekkonen

Helmi Kekkonen (s. 1982) on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan yleinen kirjallisuustiede. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Turun yliopiston luovan kirjoittamisen opinto-ohjelmassa ja Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Kotiin julkaistiin 2009.

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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.

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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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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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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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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Joel Elstelä

Joel Tapani Elstelä on suomalainen teatteriohjaaja ja näytelmäkirjailija.

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Anna Soudakova

Anna Soudakova is a teacher of Finnish, French and Russian languages who lives in Vantaa, Finland.

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Hanna-Riikka Kuisma

Hanna-Riikka Kuisma is a Finnish Finlandia Prize nominated author who is known for her novels that explore the dark sides of the human mind and our modern society.

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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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Anna Soudakova

Anna Soudakova is a teacher of Finnish, French and Russian languages who lives in Vantaa, Finland.

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Tomoka Shibasaki

Tomoka Shibasaki (柴崎友香) is a Japanese author. She graduated from Osaka Prefecture University and worked for four years before her debut in 2000, the novel Kyō no dekigoto, which was filmed by Isao Yukisada in 2003.

In 2014 she won the 151th Akutagawa Prize with her novel Haru no niwa.

See also 柴崎友香.

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Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of debut novel YOUR PRESENCE IS MANDATORY. She grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to San Francisco at the age of 13. She has a MA in Journalism from New York University and her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, TIME, the Telegraph, USA Today, and elsewhere.

Besides writing, she has founded a leading wedding PR company and one of the first coworking spaces in the U.S. She also spent a year traveling alone around the world.

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Inkeri Markkula

Inkeri Markkula (born in 1977) is a Finnish writer and biologist whose research work consists of studying the northern nature. Markkula’s research has taken her to the Arctic regions, and she has lived in Lapland, Iceland and Svalbard.

The author’s debut novel Two People per Minute (2016) was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize as one of the best debut novels of the year.

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Osmo Tapio Räihälä

Osmo Tapio Räihälä (s. 15. tammikuuta 1964 Suomussalmi) on suomalainen säveltäjä, joka on säveltänyt pääasiassa soitinmusiikkia. Valtaosa Räihälän tuotannosta on kamarimusiikkia, minkä lisäksi hän on säveltänyt viisi konserttoa sekä teoksia sinfoniaorkesterille. Hänen tunnetuin teoksensa on Barlinnie Nine, joka on musiikillinen muotokuva skottilaisesta jalkapalloilijasta Duncan Fergusonista. Räihälän musiikkia on esitetty kotimaan lisäksi muissa Pohjoismaissa sekä mm. Yhdysvalloissa, Isossa-Britanniassa, Ranskassa, Saksassa, Hollannissa, Venäjällä, Puolassa, Irlannissa ja Tšekin tasavallassa.

Rock-muusikkona aloittanut Räihälä on opiskellut sävellystä Harri Vuoren johdolla, mutta on todennut olevansa lähinnä itseoppinut. Räihälä perusti vuon

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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.

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.

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Maria Stepanova

Maria Mikhailovna Stepanova is a Russian poet, novelist, and journalist. She is the current editor of Colta.ru, an online publication specializing in arts and culture. In 2005, she won the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize for poetry.

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Antti Järvi

Antti Järvi on suomalainen toimittaja ja tietokirjailija.

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Roman Schatz

Roman Schatz is a German-born Finnish TV show host and an author. He was born in Western Germany in 1960 and has been living in Helsinki, Finland, since 1986. He has appeared on TV in various programs, including his own show Toisten-TV, in international movies Better Than Andy and he has written several books. His first book was called From Finland with love – Suomesta rakkaudella. Many of his books have been also been published in Germany.

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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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Claes Andersson

Claes Andersson was a Finland-Swedish author, psychiatrist, musician, politician and former member of the Finnish parliament representing the Left Alliance.

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Mihail Šiškin

Alternative spellings:
Mikhail Shishkin
Михаил Шишкин

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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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Iikka Kivi

Iikka Kivi on suomalainen stand up -koomikko, käsikirjoittaja ja luontoaktivisti. Hän on valmistunut medianomiksi Oulun seudun ammattikorkeakoulusta. Ennen koomikonuraansa Kivi työskenteli toimittajana, muun muassa kolumnistina ja kirjakriitikkona. Hänen esikoisteoksensa on vuonna 2018 julkaistu self help -kirjallisuutta parodioiva Menisit ennemmin terapiaan – rehellinen self help -kirja.

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Pauli Tapio

Pauli Tapio (s. 1986) on Helsingissä asuva, Oulussa syntynyt kääntäjä, tohtoriopiskelija, kriitikko ja runouslehti Tuli&Savun entinen toimittaja. Hän on opiskellut kirjallisuutta ja venäjää.

Tapio on kirjoittanut esseitä ja arvosteluja kirjallisuus-, sanoma- ja aikakauslehtiin. Tapio kääntää erityisesti venäläistä kirjallisuutta – niin proosaa kuin runouttakin.
(teksti Poesia-kustantamon sivustolta)

Pauli Tapio voitti Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon (2017) esikoisrunoteoksellaan Varpuset ja aika.

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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.

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.

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Arthur Cahn

Arthur Cahn est écrivain et scénariste. Il a publié un premier roman intitulé Les vacances du petit Renard aux éditions du Seuil en 2018.

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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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Veikka Lahtinen

Veikka Lahtinen is a freelance journalist, researcher, and book lover based in Helsinki, Finland.

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Antti Nylén

Antti Nylén is a Finnish essayist and a translator who specializes in French literature of the 19th century.

He defines himself as a catholic, a feminist and a vegan.

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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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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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Timo Miettinen

Timo Miettinen (s. 26. maaliskuuta 1981) on eurooppalaiseen filosofiaan, politiikkaan ja aatehistoriaan erikoistunut akatemiatutkija ja Helsingin yliopiston dosentti.

Miettinen väitteli tohtoriksi vuonna 2013. Hänen väitöskirjansa kuului filosofian alaan ja käsitteli Euroopan ideaa Edmund Husserlin ajattelussa (The Idea of Europe in Husserl's Phenomenology: A Study in Generativity and Historicity). Hän on väitöksensä jälkeen tutkinut muun muassa saksalaisen talouspolitiikan historiaa sekä modernin ajan Eurooppa-käsityksiä. Hän työskenteli vuonna 2023 vierailevana tutkijana Firenzen EUI-yliopiston School of Transnational Governance -yksikössä.

Eurooppalainen Suomi -yhdistys valitsi Miettisen Vuoden eurooppalaiseksi 2021.[3] Hänen ansionaan on

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Alexandra Salmela

Alexandra (Saša) Salmela on syntynyt vuonna 1980 Bratislavassa, silloisessa Tšekkoslovakiassa.

Pienestä pitäen hän on kirjoittanut lukuisia laadultaan hyvin eritasoisia runoja, satuja, kertomuksia ja draamoja, osallistunut moneen kirjoituskilpailuun, saanut muutaman tunnustuksen ja voittanutkin kerran. Vuoden 1999 jälkeen hän ei ole onneksi enää kirjoittanut yhtään runoa.

Hän on valmistunut teatteridramaturgiksi Bratislavan Teatterikorkeakoulusta ja suomen kielen ja kirjallisuuden maisteriksi Prahan Kaarlen yliopistosta. Nykyään hän asuskelee kaupungin ja erämaan välimaastossa ja pohtii, mitä tekisi elämälleen.

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Heikki Kännö

Heikki Kännö (s. 1968) on turkulainen kirjailija, jolta on ilmestynyt kolme romaania. Esikoisteos Mehiläistie sai kehuvan vastaanoton ja oli ehdolla mm. Helsingin Sanomain kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Toinen romaani Sömnö voitti Runeberg-palkinnon vuonna 2019. Kolmas romaani, vuonna 2020 ilmestynyt Runoilija on saanut loistavan vastaanoton sekä lukijoilta että kriitikoilta. Heikki Kännön ainutlaatuisen mielikuvitukselliset, rohkeasti genrejä yhdistelevät romaanit ovat nostaneet hänet Suomen eturivin kertojien joukkoon. Heikki Kännön romaaneja on käännetty useille kielille.

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Hannu Mäkelä

Born in Helsinki in 1943, Hannu Mäkelä was trained as a teacher, yet worked for 20 years as a literary editor for Otava Publishing Company. The winner of numerous literary awards, including the coveted Finlandia Prize in 1995, Hannu Mäkelä has been an independent writer since 1986. His works include children’s books, novels, radio and TV plays, anthologies of prose, and poetry.
Mäkelä´s first books were published in 1965 and had since published over 170 literature works.
Mäkelä had been studying Eino Leino´s work already in the beginning of his career by editing several collections of Eino Leino´s poetry. During the last few years Leino and also L. Onerva has been a centerpiece of Mäkelä´s research. Mäkelä´s book "Mestari" (1995) is the story

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Essi Kummu

Essi Kummu (s. 1977) on suomalainen taiteilija. Kummu on valmistunut vuonna 2003 Oulun yliopistosta filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan kirjallisuus. Hän on muun muassa opettanut käsikirjoittamista Limingan taidekoulussa.

Kummun esikoisromaani Mania ilmestyi vuonna 2006. Toisessa romaanissaan Karhun kuolema (2010) hän ammentaa aineksia suomalais-ugrilaisesta tarustosta. Hän pitää itseään ruumiillisena kirjoittajana, jonka kirjaimet tulevat esiin kävelemällä, juoksemalla ja tanssimalla.

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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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Anja Snellman

The first 10 books of Anja Snellman have been published under her maiden name Anja Kauranen.
Anja Snellmannin 10 ensimmäistä teosta on julkaistu hänen tyttönimellään Anja Kauranen.

EN: Anja Snellman (previously Kauranen) 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.

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