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Torey L. Hayden

Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana) is a child psychologist, special education teacher, university lecturer and writer of non-fiction books based on her real-life experiences with teaching and counselling children with special needs.

Subjects covered in her books include autism, Tourette syndrome, sexual abuse, fetal alcohol syndrome, and elective mutism (now called selective mutism), her specialty.

Hayden attended high school in Billings, Montana and graduated in 1969. She then attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

A little time after having written her most famous book One Child, Hayden moved to Wales in 1980 and got married to a Scot called Ken two years later. In 1985, sh

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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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Salla Simukka

EN: Salla Simukka is Finnish writer and translator who lives in Tampere. She has studied Nordic philology, Finnish language, general literature, creative writing and women's studies at the University of Turku.

Besides books, Simukka writes book reviews for the newspapers Helsinkin Sanomat and Hämeen Sanomat.

FI: Salla Simukka on Tampereella asuva suomalainen kirjailija ja suomentaja. Hän on opiskellut Turun yliopistossa pohjoismaista filologiaa, suomen kieltä, yleistä kirjallisuustiedettä, luovaa kirjoittamista ja naistutkimusta.

Kirjojen lisäksi Simukka kirjoittaa kirja-arvosteluja Helsingin Sanomiin ja Hämeen Sanomiin.

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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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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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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.

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

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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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Salla Simukka

EN: Salla Simukka is Finnish writer and translator who lives in Tampere. She has studied Nordic philology, Finnish language, general literature, creative writing and women's studies at the University of Turku.

Besides books, Simukka writes book reviews for the newspapers Helsinkin Sanomat and Hämeen Sanomat.

FI: Salla Simukka on Tampereella asuva suomalainen kirjailija ja suomentaja. Hän on opiskellut Turun yliopistossa pohjoismaista filologiaa, suomen kieltä, yleistä kirjallisuustiedettä, luovaa kirjoittamista ja naistutkimusta.

Kirjojen lisäksi Simukka kirjoittaa kirja-arvosteluja Helsingin Sanomiin ja Hämeen Sanomiin.

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Liv Strömquist

Strömquist was born in Lund and grew up in Ravlunda in the Österlen region of south Sweden. Today she lives in Malmö. Already as a five-year old she made her own comics, but stopped, until she took up drawing comics at the age of 23. Her flatmate made her interested in comic fanzines then. With Rikedomen, she published her first own fanzine.

Her breakthrough as a comic artist followed with her first album Hundra procent fett ("One hundred percent fat"), which was published in 2005.[4] She regularly publishes in the comic magazine Galago in various magazines and newspapers such as Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Arbete, Bang, Aftonbladet and Ordfront Magasin.[5][6] She designed the cover for the 2013 album Shaking the Habitual by the band The Knife. S

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Saara Turunen

Saara Turunen on helsinkiläinen kirjailija ja teatterintekijä. Hänen työlleen on ominaista sukupuolen, normien ja taiteen teemojen tarkastelu. Turunen tunnetaan paitsi romaaneistaan Hyeenan päivät, Järjettömiä asioita, Sivuhenkilö ja Rakkaudenhirviö, myös työstään teatterin parissa. Turusen teoksia on käännetty lukuisille eri kielille ja esitetty ympäri maailmaa. Turunen on palkittu muun muassa Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla 2015 ja Suomi-palkinnolla 2016.

Saara Turunen is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author, playwright and director. Much of her work examines the themes of art, identity and social norms. Turunen is known for her four highly acclaimed novels, Hyena Days 2024, Irrational Things 2021, The Bystander

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Magdalena Hai

Magdalena Hai is a Finnish author of SF&F and children’s tales. Hai’s prose, long and short, has been nominated for several awards (Finlandia Junior Award, The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize, LukuVarkaus, Topelius, Arvid Lydecken, Runeberg Junior) and has won the Kirjava Kettu, Stalker, Atorox, Blogistanian Kuopus, Kaarina Helakisa and the Finnish Literary Export Prize (Tulenkantaja). Her latest YA-series, Royaumen aikakirjat (The Chronicles of Royaume), includes so far two novels, Kolmas sisar (The Third Sister, Otava 2018) and Isetin solmu (The Knot of Iset, Otava 2021). Her and Teemu Juhani's Painajaispuoti/The Little Shop of Nightmares series has been sold to 24 language areas.

A lover of cross-genre fiction

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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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Annukka Salama

www.TikTok.com/@AnnukkaSalama

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Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.

From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.

The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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Dess Terentjeva

Dess Terentyeva (b. 1992) is an author of Russian origin who lives in the vibrant city of Tampere in Finland. As a migrant author, both Russian and Finnish cultural aspects reflect in her works. Her writing also carries strong LGBTQ themes. Terentyeva has a Master of Arts from the University of Jyväskylä.

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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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Marie Aubert

Marie Grønborg Aubert er født i 1979 og bosatt i Oslo. Kan jeg bli med deg hjem er hennes debutbok. For åpningsnovellen i denne samlingen vant Marie Aubert novellekonkurransen Litteratur på Blå arrangerte i samarbeid med Vinduet våren 2013.

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Ulla Donner

Ulla Donner is a Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator and author of graphic novels.

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Helena Waris

Helena Waris (s. 1970) vietti lapsuutensa Pohjois-Karjalassa, ja muutti 13-vuotiaana Kiteeltä Mikkeliin, jossa kirjoitti ylioppilaaksi 1990. Esikoisromaani oli jo tuolloin työn alla, mutta tarvittiin puutarhurin opinnot ja pätkätyöt niin yrttitarhan opaskierrosten vetäjänä kuin hautaustoimiston apulaisenakin, sekä lyhyt ura käsityöläisyrittäjänä ja pidempi kotiäitiys ennen kuin aika oli kypsä Uniin piirretylle polulle.

Suurimmat sysäykset kirjan toteutumiselle ovat jäljitettävissä Oriveden Opistoon, Mikkelin Kirjoittajiin ja MTV3:n Suureen Seikkailuun. Waris asuu Ristiinassa 100-vuotiaassa puutalossa. Uusperheeseen kuuluu 4-7 lasta ja 2 koiraa. Hänen sydäntään lähellä ovat maatiaiskasvit, kansanperinne, remontointi, rock-musiikki ja leivonna

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Dess Terentjeva

Dess Terentyeva (b. 1992) is an author of Russian origin who lives in the vibrant city of Tampere in Finland. As a migrant author, both Russian and Finnish cultural aspects reflect in her works. Her writing also carries strong LGBTQ themes. Terentyeva has a Master of Arts from the University of Jyväskylä.

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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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Anu Holopainen

I’m a Finnish novelist and freelance journalist. I’ve written fantasy and scifi for young people since 1996, and my first novel for adults was published in 2010.
My first science fiction novel, Molemmin jaloin (With Both Feet), was candidate for the Finlandia Junior Literary Prize in 2006.

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Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen

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