Finland

Jyrki Vainonen

Jyrki Vainonen was born in 1963. He works as a translator and lecturer on literary art. He is renowned for his translations into Finnish of works by Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Swift, and William Shakespeare.…...

Sofi Oksanen

Sofi Oksanen is a thirty-two-year-old Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. Purge is her first novel to appear in English, and the first novel to win Finland's two most prestigious literary…...

Matti Yrjänä Joensuu

Matti Yrjänä Joensuu is a serial novelist and a criminal investigator for Helsinki PD. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for Finland's major literary award, the Finlandia Prize. His…...

Kjell Westö

Kjell Westö was born in 1961. He is the author of the novels Där vi en gång gått (Where We Used to Wander, 2006), Lang (2002), Vådan av att vara Skrake (The Curse of Being Skrake,…...

Leena Lander

Born in 1956, the Finnish author Leena Lander has published stories, plays, radio plays and eleven novels, three of which were finalists for the prestigious Finlandia Prize. Known for the painstaking research…...

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