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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First of all, a confession. My name isn’t really Lucy Diamond at all, it’s Sue Mongredien. I’ve used a pen name because ‘Diamond’ is a lot easier to spell and pronounce than ‘Mongredien’ and also because I’ve written lots of children’s books too and wanted to keep the genres separate. (There is actually another Lucy Diamond on Amazon who writes religious children’s books. That isn’t me, though.)
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She published her first book, the poetry collection Sífellur (Continuances), 19 years old and received immediate attention. In 1995 she received the Icelandic Literature Prize for the novel Hjartastaður (Heart Place). Her books have been translated into other languages and a French movie based on the novel Tímaþjófurinn (The Thief of Time) premiered in 1999.
Sigurðardóttir was a reporter at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV) and a news correspondent with intervals from 1970-1982. She has also w -
Natasha Lester
Natasha Lester is the multi-award winning and New York Times best-selling author of THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS, THE PARIS ORPHAN, THE PARIS SECRET and THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ASTRID BRICARD. Her new book, THE MADEMOISELLE ALLIANCE, the story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the only female leader of a French Resistance network in WWII, is coming in April 2025.
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Prior to writing, she worked as a marketing executive for L’Oreal, managing the Maybelline brand, before returning to university to study creative writing.
Natasha's books have been translated into twenty-one different languages and are published all around the world. She lives in Perth, Western Australia with her 3 children and loves fashion history, practising the art of fashion illustration, col -
Henriikka Rönkkönen
Henriikka Rönkkönen on Heinolasta kotoisin oleva kirjailija ja bloggaaja. Koulutukseltaan hän on filosofian maisteri, pääaineena äidinkieli ja kirjallisuus. Ennen oman sinkkuutta käsittelevän bloginsa aloittamista hän kirjoittti City-lehteen seksiä ja seksuaalisuutta käsittelevää blogia.
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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. -
Sigurður Pálsson
Sigurður studied French in Toulouse and Paris 1967-1968, and drama and literature studies in the Institut d'Etudes Théâtrales, Sorbonne, Paris 1968-1973 and again from 1978-1982, obtaining maîtrise and D.E.A. degrees. He studied also in the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français, obtaining a cinema direction diploma. Pálsson works mainly as writer and translator. He has also worked as professor (University of Reykjavik and the National Academy of Dramatic Art) and cinema producer.
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Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature in 1993. Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1995, 2001 and again in 2007 for Minnisbók (Notebook from Memory) for which he finally got the Prize. Minnisbók is a memoir of his stay in France during 196 -
Ófeigur Sigurðsson
Ófeigur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic poet, novelist and translator. He was born in Reykjavík on November 2, 1975.
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Ófeigur studied philosophy at the University of Iceland and graduated in 2007, writing a thesis on the work of Georges Bataille. In 2001 he published his first book of poetry, Skál fyrir skammdeginu, with the avant-garde press Nykur. Ófeigur has to this date published seven books of poetry, four novels and several translations.
Ófeigur was the first Icelander to be awarded the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2011 for the novel Jon.
In 2014 he published the novel Öræfi [Oraefi: The Wasteland] to critical acclaim as well as great commercial success, it was the third best selling book of the year with five printings selli -
Satu Tähtinen
Finnish romance writer.
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Author of historical romance series Moraalisten naisten kirjakerho (Otava) published in 2024 and 2025.
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Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland. -
Stefán Máni
Stefán grew up in Ólafsvík and lived there until over the age of 20. After school he did general manual labour and service jobs. To name a few, he worked in the fishing industry, did building work, plumbing, gardening, was a security guard, a cleaner, worked with teenagers and cared for the mentally ill.
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He has now written eight novels, the first coming out in 1996, Dyrnar á Svörtufjöllum (The Door in the Black Mountains). -
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva's first book, Sóley sólufegri, came out in 1998 in a very limited edition. In the same year the publishing house Bjartur published her short story collection Á meðan hann horfir á þig ertu María mey (While He Watches You, You are the Virgin Mary), to much acclaim. Since then Guðrún Eva has published five novels, a collection of philosophical stories for children published by The National Centre for Educational Materials and a book of poetry. She has also translated novels by foreign authors.
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Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
Nanna Rögnvaldardottir is Iceland’s most popular cookbook author and food writer. Her first book, the food encyclopaedia Matarást (Love of Food), published in 1998, was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Non-Fiction and was named Reference Book of the Year by the Icelandic Librarians Association. In 2000, Nanna was a co-recipient of the Hagthenkir Non-Fiction Prize, awarded to her and food historian Hallgerdur Gisladottir "for remarkable, fundamental writing of high quality about cooking and cuisine, national and international."
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Hugrún Björnsdóttir
Hugrún Björnsdóttir is an Icelandic writer and project manager. Her debut novel, "Rót alls ills" (e. The Root of All Evil) is a romantic thriller and was published by Storytel in July 2024. The novel introduced the protagonist Kamilla Brim, a forensic psychologist. Hugrún has already started writing the second novel in the Kamilla series, which is expected in 2025.
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When not writing fiction, Hugrún shares her passion for literature through Lestrarklefinn, a community of writers, editors and book enthusiasts, with their online platform lestrarklefinn.is dedicated to book and theatre reviews. -
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir
Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir (f.1998) er skáld og tónlistarkona frá Reykjavík. Hún gaf út fyrstu skáldsögu sína Skotheld (2018) tvítug að aldri og hefur síðan gert það gott í tónlistarsenunni. Hún er stofnmeðlimur og einn aðaltextahöfundur hljómsveitarinnar Ólafur Kram sem sigraði músíktilraunir 2021. Moldin heit er hennar önnur skáldsaga. Fyrir hana hlaut hún Nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta.
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Birgitta er meðlimur í listakollektívunni Heysahorn og ljóðakollektívunni MÚKK -
Gustaf Skördeman
Gustaf Skordeman (b. 1965) was born in Sweden and is a screenwriter, director and producer. Geiger is his literary debut. It is sold for publication in more than 20 languages.
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Skúli Sigurðsson
Skúli er höfundur spennubókanna Stóri bróðir (2022), Maðurinn frá São Paulo (2023), Slóð sporðdrekans (2024) og Ragnarök undir jökli (2025).
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Stóri bróðir hlaut Blóðdropann, íslensku glæpasagnaverðlaunin, og Maðurinn frá São Paulo var tilnefnd þeirra.
Skúli er menntaður lögfræðingur með reynslu af blaðamennsku, mannúðarstörfum hjá Sameinuðu þjóðunum og flóttamannarétti. -
Anna Margrét Sigurðardóttir
Anna Margrét Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic author who holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Iceland. Her debut novel, Hringferðin, was published in 2021 and received such acclaim that it sparked the creation of a crime series featuring the detective duo introduced in the book. The second book in the series, Örvænting, was released last year, followed by the third, Öskrið, earlier this year.
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In addition to her crime series, Anna Margrét has written a children's adventure story, Dularfulli Steinninn í Garðinum, which was published in November 2023. The novel was nominated for the Storytel Awards.
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Patricia G. Bertényi
Patricia G. Bertényi (born 1973) is a Hungarian-born author based in Turku who works as a nurse in an intensive care unit and is editor-in-chief of the Tehohoitolehti ICU periodical. In addition, she has earned a photography diploma from the New York Institute of Photography. Before her Osasto C1 (“Ward C1”) hospital detective novel series centred on Janka Vitéz, Bertényi wrote the “Varjojen lähettiläs” trilogy.
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Ilari Aalto
Ilari Aalto on Hämeenlinnassa syntynyt, Raisiossa asuva arkeologi ja tietokirjailija. Tutkijana Aalto on perehtynyt erityisesti keskiaikaan, ja hän on tehnyt useita vuosia kaivaustutkimuksia Aboa Vetus Ars Nova -museossa Turussa. Tällä hetkellä Aalto tekee väitöstutkimusta keskiaikaisista kirkonrakentajista Suomessa. Aalto on kirjoittanut tietokirjansa yhdessä kuvittajapuolisonsa Elina Helkalan kanssa. Heidän esikoisteokselleen Matkaopas keskiajan Suomeen myönnettiin vuonna 2016 tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinto.
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Elsebeth Egholm
Bestselling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm began her career behind the keyboards of a piano. She was a student of music as a performer at The Royal Academy of Music and at the Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus, before she changed instrument and enrolled at the Danish School of Journalism, also based in her hometown of Aarhus. She spent a few years working for a daily newspaper, but by 1992 she was living with future husband, the late British author Philip Nicholson, in the Maltese island of Gozo, working as a freelance writer.
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Eventually she began making a name for herself as the author of a string of well crafted short stories published in women's magazines in both Denmark and the other Nordic countries. Her first novel -
Ulrika Kestere
Ulrika is a photographer, illustrator, author and art director based in Lund, Sweden.
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Her creative studies started in Lofoten, Norway, 2006. After two year with focus on photography she came back to Sweden and studied industrial design at Ingvard Kamprad Design School in Lund. After her studies she worked 3 years in advertising. Today she’s a freelancer, working on assignments within photography and illustration. She is also working part time as an Art Director at Timi of Sweden.
She has published five children’s books. Vilda grannar, Ottos ulliga tröja, Den känsliga igelkotten, Födelsedagen and Kakorna är slut! (Swedish titles). Her books have been translated to 13 languages; English, French, Italian, Russian, Danish, Latvian, Estonian, Jord -
Patrick Taylor
There is more than one author with this name
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Patrick Taylor, M.D., is the author of the Irish Country books, including An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, and An Irish Country Courtship. Taylor was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.
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Pirkko Saisio
See also Saisio's pseudonyms: Jukka Larsson, Eva Wein
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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. -
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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Fridrik Erlings
Friðrik Erlingsson
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Fridrik Erlings was born in Reykjavik in 1962. From 1980 - '90 he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He was a guitar player and songwriter in two Icelandic rock bands; Purrkur Pillnik from '81-'83 and in '86 he founded the alternative rock band The Sugarcubes with Einar Orn and Bjork before leaving music to pursue writing.
Fridrik is the author of several novels, both Fiction and Young Adult novels. He's written numerous lyrics for contemporary pop and rock artists; he has written screenplays for film and television, the most recent the screenplay for 'Thor - Legends of Valhalla', the first feature length 3D-animation film made in Iceland. He has also lectured screenwriting at The Icelandic Film School.
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Max Seeck
Max Seeck - New York Times Bestselling Author of THE WITCH HUNTER.
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“Another star has been added to the firmament of thriller writers,” announced Iltalehti newspaper, when Max’s debut novel was published in 2016. Four years and four books later, Max Seeck’s novels have been sold to more than 40 countries, including US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Nordic countries and as far as Korea!
His debut trilogy following protagonist Daniel Kuisma sold over 50,000 copies in Finland. His new Jessica Niemi series landed him on the New York Times Bestseller list! In Faithful Reader, AKA The Witch Hunter (US title), book 1 of the Jessica Niemi series, Helsinki Police Detective Jessica Niemi hunts an occultist serial killer. In Evil’s Net, AKA Ice Cov -
Jessikka Aro
Jessikka Aro (b.1980) is a Finnish journalist working for Finland's public service broadcaster Yle and an author of a non-fiction book Putin's Trolls.
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In September 2014, she began to investigate pro-Russian Internet trolls, but became a victim of their activities herself. This harassment led to three people being convicted in October 2018.
In 2019 she was notified that she was to receive an International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State but this was rescinded just before the ceremony.
According to Aro and U.S. officials familiar with the internal deliberations, the award was rescinded after U.S. officials reviewed Aro's social media posts and found she had criticized President Donald Trump.
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Maria Peura
Maria Peura (s. 1970) julkaisi esikoisromaaninsa On rakkautes ääretön vuonna 2001. Se valittiin Finlandia-palkintoehdokkaaksi ja sai Olvi-, Nuori Aleksis- ja Hyvä teko lapselle -palkinnon. Vuonna 2004 häneltä ilmestyi lasten runokokoelma Mimmi Moun ilotaika (Tammi) ja kaksi vuotta myöhemmin hänen toinen romaaninsa Valon reunalla (Teos), joka on julkaistu myös englanniksi. Peuran kolmas romaani Vedenaliset ilmestyi vuonna 2008, ja samana vuonna hän valmistui dramaturgiksi. Vuonna 2010 Peura kirjoitti loistavan tietokirjan kirjoittamisesta, Antaumuksella keskeneräinen on kirja kirjailijan ammatista.
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Riikka Pulkkinen
Riikka Pulkkinen was born in 1980 and spent her youth in Oulu, a town on Finland’s northwest coast, with her father (a lawyer), mother (a doctor), and two sisters. During that time, she was also a very talented athlete. Nowadays she studies literature and philosophy at the University of Helsinki, and does her jogging without a stopwatch.
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The Border, Pulkkinen's first novel, was published in 2006 and got positive reviews and immediate sales success.
Her second novel, True, came out in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Finland. The film rights of True have been sold to Vertigo Productions (Finland), and its adaptation for the stage premiered at Helsinki KOM Theatre in November 2011.
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Lilja Sigurðardóttir
Lilja´s newest book, Netið ((Tangle) was published by Forlagid publishing in October 2016 and is the second book in the Reykjavík Noir Trilogy.
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Lilja started her writing career in 2008 when she sent a manuscript of a novel to a competition run by the publishing house Bjartur whose aim was to find the Icelandic Dan Brown. Lilja got a publishing deal out of the competition and in 2009 her first book, the crime novel Spor (Steps), came out, which she wrote in her spare time. Her second book, Fyrirgefning (Foregiveness) was published a year later but after that Lilja wrote mostly for theatre for the coming years. She won the Icelandic Theatre Awards for Best Play of the Year in 2014 for her staged debut Stóru börnin (Big Babies). But in 2015 she -
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.
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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 -
Max Seeck
Max Seeck - New York Times Bestselling Author of THE WITCH HUNTER.
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“Another star has been added to the firmament of thriller writers,” announced Iltalehti newspaper, when Max’s debut novel was published in 2016. Four years and four books later, Max Seeck’s novels have been sold to more than 40 countries, including US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Nordic countries and as far as Korea!
His debut trilogy following protagonist Daniel Kuisma sold over 50,000 copies in Finland. His new Jessica Niemi series landed him on the New York Times Bestseller list! In Faithful Reader, AKA The Witch Hunter (US title), book 1 of the Jessica Niemi series, Helsinki Police Detective Jessica Niemi hunts an occultist serial killer. In Evil’s Net, AKA Ice Cov -
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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Ulla-Lena Lundberg
Ulla-Lena Lundberg on syntynyt Kökarissa ja asuu nykyisin Porvoossa. Jo 15-vuotiaana debytoinut Lundberg on julkaissut lähes kaksikymmentä kirjaa: runoja, raportteja, matkakertomuksia ja romaaneja. Hänet on palkittu moneen kertaan; hän on mm. saanut kahdesti valtion kirjallisuuspalkinnon, ollut neljä kertaa Finlandia-ehdokkaana ja Pohjoismaisen kirjallisuuspalkinnon ehdokkaana ja saanut Ruotsin Akatemian Finland-palkinnon, Gummeruksen Kaarlen palkinnon ja Kiitos kirjasta -mitalin. Vuonna 1993 hänet nimitettiin taiteilijaprofessoriksi sekä Åbo Akademin kunniatohtoriksi. Lundberg voitti vuoden 2012 Finlandia-palkinnon romaanillaan Jää.
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Enni Mustonen
FI: Enni Mustonen on kirjailija Kirsti Mannisen kirjailijanimi.
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Auður Jónsdóttir
Auður Jónsdóttir was born on March 30, 1973. She is a writer and freelance journalist and has published articles, essays and interviews in various journals and newspapers.
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Her first published work of fiction is the short story "Gifting" (Marriage), published in the literary magazine Andblær in 1997. Other short stories have appeared in magazines and collections since then. Auður's first novel, Stjórnlaus lukka (Uncontrollable Luck, 1998), was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize in the same year. Since then, she has published other novels as well as books for children and teenagers, among them a book about her grandfather, Halldór Laxness. Her novel Fólkið í kjallaranum (The People in the Basement), received the Icelandic Literature Pr -
C.S. Duffy
C.S. Duffy writes psychological suspense thrillers with a healthy dose of black humour.
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Her background is in film and TV. She has several projects in development in Sweden and the UK, and her thriller feature Guilty will be shot in April 2018 in Canada. She is the author of Life is Swede, a psychological thriller that was originally written as a blog - leading several readers to contact Swedish news agencies asking them why they hadn’t reported the murder that features in the blog.
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Jare Henrik Tiihonen
Jare Tiihonen on Suomen musiikkihistoriaa muuttanut artisti. Hän päätti muusikonuransa näyttävästi vuonna 2018 ja on sen jälkeen pääosin pysytellyt poissa julkisuudessa.
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Kay Nielsen
Kay Rasmus Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator who was popular in the early 20th century, the "golden age of illustration" which lasted from when Daniel Vierge and other pioneers developed printing technology to the point that drawings and paintings could be reproduced with reasonable facility. He joined the ranks of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in enjoying the success of the gift books of the early 20th century. Nielsen is also known for his collaborations with Disney for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations.
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Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, is often said to be the most famous Finnish artist in the world. His highly stylized homoerotic drawings had a profound influence on late twentieth century gay culture, as well as fashion and pop culture in general. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade.
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Over the course of four decades he produced some 3500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated primary and secondary sex traits, with tight or partially removed clothing. Despite having created the self-assured and muscular archetype of the homosexual in his imagery, his most important messages were tolerance and -
Gísli Pálsson
Gísli Pálsson is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iceland.
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Seppo Jokinen
FI: Seppo Sakari Jokinen (s. 13. huhtikuuta 1949 Tampere) on suomalainen rikoskirjailija.
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Jokinen kävi keskikoulun Tampereen klassillisessa lyseossa ja lähti armeijan jälkeen 1970 Australiaan lähes neljäksi vuodeksi. Hän työskenteli 1975 lähtien Tampereen kaupungin tietokonekeskuksessa ja ehti toimia pitkään keskuksen pääoperaattorina, kunnes ryhtyi vapaaksi kirjailijaksi loppuvuodesta 2006.
Seppo Jokinen tunnetaan tamperelaista ja Hervannassa asuvaa komisario Sakari Koskista käsittelevistä rikosromaaneistaan. Jokinen on julkaissut säännöllisesti vuodesta 1996 lähtien vuosittain yhden kirjan.
Vuonna 2010 Jokinen vaihtoi kustantamoa Karistosta osuuskuntamuotoiseen suomalaisten dekkarikirjailijoiden omistamaan Crime Time -kustantamoon. Jokinen o -
Kaisu Tuokko
Kaisu Tuokko on kotoisin Kristiinankaupungista, eikä tuo Pohjolan helmi ole koskaan päästänyt hänestä irti. Tuokko rakastaa ventovieraiden tarinoita, pikkukaupunkien salaisuuksia, sateisia syysiltoja ja ruotsin kieltä. Hän asuu Helsingissä ja on nimennyt päähenkilönsä isoäitiensä mukaan.
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Kaisu Tuokko on kirjailijanimi, jonka takaa paljastuu Otavan lasten- ja nuortenkirjojen kustannusjohtaja Kaisu-Maria Toiskallio. Tuokko on alunperin kirjailijan tyttönimi. -
Halldór Armand
Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (f. 1986) lauk meistaraprófi í lögum við Háskóla Íslands árið 2012 og hlaut nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta fyrir handritið að fyrstu skáldsögu sinni, Vince Vaughn í skýjunum (2013). Síðan þá hafa komið út Drón (2014), Aftur og aftur (2017), Bróðir (2020) og nú síðast Mikilvægt rusl (2024). Hann hefur einnig sent frá sér esseyjusafnið Við erum bara að reyna að hafa gaman (2022). Bækur hans hafa komið út á fjölda tungumála og pistlar hans um samfélagsleg málefni njóta mikilla vinsælda.
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Tryggvi Emilsson
Tryggvi Emilsson rithöfundur (1902-1993) bjó í Blesugrófinni frá 1947 til 1956. Æviminningar hans eru mikilvæg heimild um líf og baráttu verkafólks á Íslandi á tuttugustu öld en þetta eru bækurnar Fátækt fólk, Baráttan um brauðið og Fyrir sunnan. Þær komu út á árunum 1976 – 1979 og voru tvær fyrstu bækurnar tilnefndar til Bókmenntaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs.
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