Tua Forsström

Tua Birgitta Forsström (born 2 April 1947) is a Finnish writer who writes in Swedish. She was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998 for the poetry collection Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar. Forsström's work is known for its engagement with the Finnish landscape, travel and conflicts within relationships. She often uses quotations in her work, sometimes placing them directly into her poems and at other times using them as introductions or interludes in her sequences. She has used quotations from Egon Friedell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietszche. In the collection After Spending a Night Among Horses (Efter att ha tillbringat en natt bland hästar) (1997) Forsström uses quotations from the An

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Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967 in East Berlin) is a German director and writer.

Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props and wardrobe supervisor.

From 1988 to 1990 Erpenbeck studied theatre at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. Aft
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Knut Hamsun

Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.

He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.
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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
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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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Jon Fosse

Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.

He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl
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Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re
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Carl-Johan Vallgren

He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the first novel to be translated into English. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in Stockholm.
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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.
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Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.
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Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky is the Poetry Editor of Words Without Borders. His awards include a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine and first place in the National Russian Essay Contest. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa which won the Dorset Prize.
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Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.
She began her career with a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna ("The Three Little Masters") and Dödsklockan ("The Death Clock")) but later went on to persue psychological and social themes. Among her later works are Mörker och blåbärsris ("Darkness and Blueberries"), set in northern Sweden, and Händelser vid vatten (translated as Blackwater), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel.

Ekman was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. According to the rules of the Academy, however, she will
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Solvej Balle

Solvej Balle er en særegen stemme i dansk litteratur. Hun var del af en gruppe hovedsageligt kvindelige forfattere, som debuterede eller slog deres navne fast i begyndelsen af 90’erne. Siden Balle debuterede i 1986 med romanen ”Lyrefugl”, har hun udgivet ganske få værker, så det var en overraskelse, da hun i 2020 annoncerede det ambitiøse og filosofiske syvbindsværk ”Om udregning af rumfang”, som hun i 2022 modtog Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris for, for de første fire bind
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Karl Ove Knausgård

Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.

Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over.
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Han Kang

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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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Marisha Rasi-Koskinen

Marisha Rasi-Koskinen on varsinaiselta koulutukseltaan psykologian maisteri, joka työskentelee koulupsykologina. Hän on tehnyt myös vapaaehtoistyötä mm. kriisikeskuksessa ja tsekkiläisessä saattokodissa.

Rasi-Koskisen esikoisromaani Katariina (2011) sai paljon tunnustusta väkevästä kielestä ja monia tulkintoja avaavasta kerronnasta. Hänen toinen teoksensa Valheet voitti vuoden 2013 Tiiliskivi-palkinnon ja sitä kiitettiin erityisesti hätkähdyttävästä rakenteestaan. Kolmas romaani Vaaleanpunainen meri oli yksi vuoden 2015 Runeberg-palkinnon ehdokkaista.

Rasi-Koskinen asuu Tampereella ja on kolmen lapsen äiti. Hän harrastaa valokuvausta, ja kuvia tarinoiden taustalla voi käydä katsomassa instagramissa @marisharasikoskinen.
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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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Linda Boström Knausgård

Linda Boström Knausgård debuted with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret in 1998. Her prose debut is entitled Grand mal.
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Louise Glück

American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.

Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.

She was the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009); Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Librar
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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.
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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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Noora Vallinkoski

Noora Vallinkoski (s. 1981) on Tanskassa asuva turkulaisen lähiön kasvatti ja työläisperheen tytär. Vallinkoski on opiskellut mediatutkimusta ja luovaa kirjoittamista Turun yliopistossa. Hän pitää kirjoista, joissa yhteiskunnallisuus yhdistyy estetiikkaan. Perno Mega City on hänen esikoisteoksensa.
(Atena kustannuksen sivulta)
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Oksana Vasyakina

Associated Names:
* Оксана Васякина (Russian)
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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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