Literature from Finland

12/02/2025

WE ARE BACK! 📚Literature from Finland, a podcast in English on the most interesting authors from Finland is back online. 🥳 A new format combines gentle chat between the hosts Urte & Viivi with poignant insights offered by some excellent book people from all around the world. In the season's first episode, we discuss the wittiest and most fearless Finnish author,⁠ Pirkko Saisio⁠, her Helsinki, and the restlessness of her art. Link to the episode in the comments!👇

01/07/2023

Season's finale is out!🥰 One of the most moving and wonderful episodes so far, with Kirjailija Merja Mäki – on trauma of displacement in her bestselling debut Before the Birds, as well as various notions of home. Episode available on all the usual platforms, or then under the link below.
Enjoy the summer, we'll be back in September! 💃
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28/06/2023

This FRIDAY – season's last Literature from Finland podcast episode HOME, with the splendid Kirjailija Merja Mäki, the author of Before the Birds! 🥰 Don't forget to tune in before the summer break!
All episodes can be found here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literature-from-finland
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06/05/2023

Another wonderful conversation – THE LIFE (UN)LIVED, with the charming Juha Kauppinen. ❤️ What drives people to continue on living even in the worst of circumstances? Environmentalist and awarded author Juha Kauppinen has written about nature and environmental movement for two decades. Yet, he is still often asked the same old question: why is it important? In the new Literature from Finland episode, the author discusses the diversity of life, Kurt Vonnegut, and the integrity of action and hope.

You can find Literature from Finland podcast on all the usual platforms, or otherwise, under the link below!
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What drives people to continue on living even in the worst of circumstances? Environmentalist and awarded author Juha Kauppinen has written about nature and environmental movement for two decades. Yet, he is still often asked the same old question: why is it important? In the new Literature from Fin...

05/04/2023

New episode finally out!🥰 How can writing help in the process of remembering? With her debut The Body of Evidence, the winner of the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, Susanna Hast, brought autotheoretical literature to the Finnish literary scene and posed the question: how to write out the truth in order to regain humanity? In the new Literature from Finland episode, the author discusses autotheoretical narration and literature of remembering.
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How can writing help in the process of remembering? With her debut The Body of Evidence, the winner of the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, Susanna Hast, brought autotheoretical literature to the Finnish literary scene, and posed the question: how to write out the truth in order to regain humanit...

26/03/2023

Don't forget to tune in Literature from Finland podcast next week – the winner of the Best Debut of the Year, Susanna Hast, will be discussing THE ART OF MEMORY. No doubt, coming out to be a super interesting episode!
Helsinki Literary Agency Kustantamo S&S FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange

23/02/2023

New episode is out! 🤓 How does one write entertaining historical fiction? Ann-ChristinAntell found a way to the hearts of wide readership with her commercial historical romance, the Cotton Mill trilogy. In the new Literature from Finland episode, the author discusses the exciting history of the city of Turku and reaching her audience with writing about times past.
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How does one write entertaining historical fiction? Ann-Christin Antell found a way to the hearts of wide readership with her commercial historical romance, the Cotton Mill trilogy. In the new Literature from Finland episode, the author discusses the exciting history of the city of Turku and reachin...

10/02/2023

has fans all over the world – including Tasmania! Thank you, Meika Loofs Samorzewski, for your lovely comment on Literature from Finland podcast episode EXPERIMENT – you made our day! ❤️ To fans out there: remember you can always leave us a voice message on Anchor (see picture below); we'd be delighted to hear your thoughts and even include them in our upcoming episodes! 🤓 It's incredible to see that the literature of such a small country as Finland reaches and touches listeners thousands of miles away. Keep following, keep listening – new episode TIMES is coming out this month!
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18/01/2023

New episode is out! 🥳 Do authors today still experiment to push boundaries, or simply out of boredom? Throughout their respective careers, writers Laura Lindstedt and Sinikka Vuola have been interested in experimenting with form and language. In 2022, together they published an Oulipo-inspired murder mystery 101 Ways to Kill Your Husband – a piece of sheer joy and fascination for readers, writers and translators. In our new episode, authors discuss experiments, literary possibilities, and… revenge.
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Do authors today still experiment to push boundaries, or simply out of boredom? Throughout their respective careers, writers Laura Lindstedt and Sinikka Vuola have been interested in experimenting with form and language. In 2022, together they published an Oulipo-inspired murder mystery 101 Ways to....

17/01/2023

Look who visited us in our little studio! 😍 The wonderful, sharp, witty and just plain splendid Laura Lindstedt & Sinikka Vuola discussed literary experiments and their new book 101 Ways to Kill Your Husband! New Literature from Finland podcast episode EXPERIMENT coming out tomorrow! 💃
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01/11/2022

The book fair season is over, and we are back with our creative ventures more regularly! New Literature from Finland episode SHAME with the young and talented Antti Rönkä, whose novel Off The Ground stirred quite a public discussion about the mostly unseen side of young men. Don't worry, we also found some good sides in shame. 🙂 Enjoy, comment, read the book (that is now available in French too, thanks to Éditions Rivages & translator Sébastien Cagnoli)! 🥰
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Do Finns, a stereotypically shy nation, feel more shame than others? In the new episode, author Antti Rönkä, whose debut novel Off the Ground (2019) encouraged a public discussion in Finland about the mostly unspoken side of young men, discusses shame as a subject in literature, the lure of autofi...

30/07/2022

After a short break, Literature from Finland podcast is back with the lovely episode YOUTH, where YA author Ellen Strömberg discusses the unbearable lightness of the young adults’ world, understanding and handling one’s own feelings, as well as her newest YA novel, We’ll Just Ride Past. Enjoy! 🥰
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https://anchor.fm/literature-from-finland/episodes/Youth-e1lsrk2

Can YA literature help the youth of today cope with their lives? In the newest episode, author Ellen Strömberg discusses the unbearable lightness of the young adults’ world, understanding and handling one’s own feelings, as well as her newest YA novel, We’ll Just Ride Past.