Veikko Huovinen
Veikko Huovinen was a Finnish novelist known for his realism, pacifism, sharp intellect, and peculiar humor. He wrote 37 books.
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Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian.
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Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. Later he enrolled in the University of Helsinki as a theology student, according to his mother's wishes, but soon abandoned theology in favour of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, graduating in 1929. While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in 1925. In 1927 he went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life. In terms of style, the novel is considered to be -
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.
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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.
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Väinö Linna
Väinö Linna was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).
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Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region. He was the seventh child of Viktor (Vihtori) Linna (1874–1927) and Johanna Maria (Maija) Linna (1888–1972). However, Linna's father, a butcher, died when Väinö Linna was only eight years old. Thus his mother had to support the entire family by working at a nearby manor. Despite his background, Linna's interest in literature bega -
Kari Hotakainen
Kari Hotakainen is a Finnish writer. Hotakainen started his writing career as a reporter in Pori. In 1986, he moved to Helsinki. He became a full-time writer in 1996. He has two children with his wife, sound technician Tarja Laaksonen, whom he married in 1983. He has also worked as a copywriter and as a columnist for the Helsingin Sanomat.
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His father, Keijo Hotakainen, worked as a storekeeper and photographer while his mother, Meeri Ala-Kuusisto, worked as a sales clerk. Kari Hotakainen passed his matriculation examination in 1976 and graduated from Rautalampi High School the same year. He has a Bachelor of Arts.
Hotakainen kicked off his career as an author in the beginning of the 1980s by writing poetry. His debut collection Harmittavat tak -
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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Alexander Stubb
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb (Finland Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑi ˈjœːrɑn ɑlekˈsɑndær ˈstʉbː], born 1 April 1968) is a Finnish politician who has been the 13th president of Finland since 2024. He previously served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
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Rising in politics as a researcher specialised in the affairs of the European Union, he was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 as a member of the National Coalition Party. In 2008, Stubb was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 2011, he was elected to the Finnish Parliament for the first time as an MP with the second-highest vote count in the election. He was then appointed Minister for European Affairs and Trade in the Cabinet of Jyrki Katainen. -
Anna-Leena Härkönen
ENG: Anna-Leena Härkönen works as a writer and an actor, having acted as a scriptwriter too. Her works have been adapted into movies and plays, and Häräntappoase has been made into a television series of six episodes, too.
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FI: Anna-Leena Härkönen on syntynyt 10.4.1965 Limingassa, kirjoittanut ylioppilaaksi vuonna 1985, opiskellut Teatterikorkeakoulussa ja Tampereen yliopiston näyttelijäntyön laitoksella ja valmistunut näyttelijäksi 1989. Anna-Leena Härkönen asuu Helsingissä ja toimii vapaana kirjailijana ja näyttelijänä.
Anna-Leena Härkönen on teini-ikäisestä alkaen kuulunut kulttuurielämämme huippuihin niin kirjailijana, käsikirjoittajana kuin näyttelijänäkin. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Häräntappoase palkittiin J. H. Erkon rahaston palkinnolla -
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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Charan Ranganath
Charan Ranganath is an affiliated faculty with the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, which seeks to understand the function of the human brain in health and in illness. He is also director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis and is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Mind and Brain. His research involves the use of functional neuroimaging, electrophysiology and behavioral methods to study the neural basis of human memory and executive control.
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He previously served as editor for the Cognitive Neuroscience Section of the journal NeuroImage, and currently serves as an editor for the Journal of Neuroscience, which is the most influential academically edited journal in the field of neuroscience.
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Iida Rauma
Iida Rauma on turkulainen kirjailija. Rauma valmistui valtiotieteiden maisteriksi Turun yliopistosta, missä hän opiskeli poliittista historiaa, valtio-oppia, sukupuolentutkimusta ja luovaa kirjoittamista. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Katoamisten kirja oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Toinen romaani Seksistä ja matematiikasta voitti Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon sekä Tulenkantaja-palkinnon. Rauman kolmannessa romaanissa Hävitys: tapauskertomus nivoutuvat yhteen kouluväkivalta, ekokriisi ja Turun kaupungin historia. Kirja voitti Finlandia-palkinnon 2022.
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Juhani Karila
Juhani Karila on Pelkosenniemeltä kotoisin oleva kirjailija. Hän on valmistunut tiedotusopin maisteriksi Tampereen yliopistosta. Karila on työskennellyt toimittajana muun muassa Helsingin Sanomien kulttuuritoimituksessa. Vuonna 2010 Karila voitti J. H. Erkon kirjoituskilpailun, ja hänen esikoisteoksensa Gorilla oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Hänen romaaninsa Pienen hauen pyydystys voitti sekä Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon että Jarkko Laine -palkinnon.
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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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