A New North: Contemporary Writing from Finland
Words Without Borders, the online journal of literature in English translation, has published an issue devoted to contemporary Finnish literature.
The Blood of Angels
A man searches for the meaning of mass honeybee disappearances, and loss in his own life, in this moving story of tragedy and transcendence by Johanna Sinisalo.
Compartment No. 6
A quiet young Finnish student is forced to share her train compartment with a drunken, tale-telling, self-proclaimed murderer as they cross the crumbling Soviet Union from Moscow to Ulan Bator in Rosa Liksom’s Finlandia Prize-winning novel.
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen’s brilliant, indescribable first novel is a darkly funny tale about a tiny town haunted by aspiring writers and otherwordly presences.
Six Finnish Poets
An eclectic sampling of some of the freshest voices in Finnish poetry.
The Limit
The grief of love lost to dementia and the treacherous first steps into sexual and psychological adulthood are told with scrupulous emotional honesty in Riikka Pulkkinen’s prize-winning first novel.
Finnish Literature in English: A Tiny Boom
Interest in Finnish literature has been slowly but steadily increasing in the English-speaking world.
The Healer
A poet searches for his missing wife in a Europe of the near future faced with climate catastrophe. A story of love and survival in difficult times by Antti Tuomainen.
Lola
Lola Rogers is a full-time freelance literary translator living in Seattle. Her published translations include numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems.
True
Riikka Pulkkinen’s sensitive and subtle novel of family secrets is an exploration of the imaginative origins of story and the malleability of memory.