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Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize (Finnish: Helsingin Sanomain kirjallisuuspalkinto) is a Finnish literary award for a debut novel in the Finnish language. It was founded in 1964. From 1964-1994 it operated under the name J. H. Erkko Award (Finnish: J. H. Erkon palkinto). Beginning in 1995 the name changed to Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize. The prize is valued at . Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize * 1995 Sari Mikkonen: ''Naistenpyörä'', * 1996 Juha K. Tapio: ''Frankensteinin muistikirja'', * 1997 Marja Kyllönen: ''Lyijyuuma'', * 1998 Katri Tapola: ''Kalpeat tytöt'', * 1999 Jyrki Vainonen: ''Tutkimusmatkailija ja muita tarinoita'', * 2000 Olli Heikkonen: ''Jakutian aurinko'', * 2001 Reidar Palmgren: ''Jalat edellä'', * 2002 Reko Lundán: ''Ilman suuria suruja'', * 2003 Riku Korhonen: ''Kahden ja yhden yön tarinoita'', * 2004 Sanna Karlström: ''Taivaan mittakaava'', * 2005 Juhani Känkänen: ''Toivon mukaan'', * 2006 Armas Alvari: ''Varmat tapaukset' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katri Lipson
Katri Lipson (born 1965 in Helsinki) is a Finnish writer and doctor. She studied medicine at Uppsala University, graduating in 1993. Since then, she has worked as a doctor in Finland, Sweden and Kenya. Her debut novel ''Cosmonaut'' (''Kosmonautti'', 2008) was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize in 2008 and won the Helsingin Sanomat Debut Book of the Year Award that same year. Her second novel, ''The Ice Cream Man'' (''Jäätelökauppias'', 2012), won the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. The novel, which takes place in former Czechoslovakia, was published in Czech in 2014. It has also been published in English and 12 other languages. Lipson's third novel, ''Detroit'', was published in 2016. Lipson's fourth novel, ''Marienbad'' ''(Kaikkein haikein leikki)'' was published in 2019. Lipson lives in Vantaa Vantaa (; sv, Vanda, ) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is part of the inner core of the Finnish Capital Region along with Helsinki, Espoo, and Kauniainen. With a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Rossi
Matti may refer to: * Matti (given name), people with the given name * Matti (surname), people with the surname * Matti, Karnataka, a village in India * '' Matti: Hell Is for Heroes'', a 2006 film about Matti Nykänen See also * Masa (other) Masa is type of dough made from corn. Masa or MASA may also refer to: * MASA (company), former bus manufacturer in Mexico * Masa (land), a land to the west of Hatti in Late Bronze Age Anatolia * Masa (musician), stage name of a Japanese musici ... * Mati (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Paavilainen
Matti may refer to: * Matti (given name), people with the given name * Matti (surname), people with the surname * Matti, Karnataka, a village in India * '' Matti: Hell Is for Heroes'', a 2006 film about Matti Nykänen See also * Masa (other) Masa is type of dough made from corn. Masa or MASA may also refer to: * MASA (company), former bus manufacturer in Mexico * Masa (land), a land to the west of Hatti in Late Bronze Age Anatolia * Masa (musician), stage name of a Japanese musici ... * Mati (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari Aronpuro
Kari Aronpuro (born 30 June 1940) is a Finnish poet."A History of Finland's Literature", 1998, p.251/ref> He worked in the library industry for over 40 years. He worked as a librarian at the University of Tampere course library from 1964 to 1971, Rääkkylän municipal library in 1972, Kemin library from 1972 to 1981 and the Tampere library from 1981 to 2003. Awards and decorations * 2004: Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland The Order of the Lion of Finland ( fi, Suomen Leijonan ritarikunta; sv, Finlands Lejons orden) is one of three official orders in Finland, along with the Order of the Cross of Liberty and the Order of the White Rose of Finland. The President ... * 2011: Eino Leino Prize * 1987: Runeberg Prize * 1964: J. H. Erkko Award References 20th-century Finnish poets Living people 1940 births 21st-century Finnish poets Finnish male poets Finnish librarians 20th-century male writers 21st-century male writers {{finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Weselius
Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a family name of Irish origin Places United States * Hannah, Georgia * Hanna City, Illinois * Hanna, Indiana * Hanna, Louisiana * Hannah, Michigan * Hanna, Missouri * Hannah, North Dakota * Hanna, Oklahoma * Hannah, South Carolina * Hanna, South Dakota * Hanna, Utah * Hanna, West Virginia * Hanna, Wyoming * Hannah Run, a stream in Ohio Elsewhere * Hanna, Alberta, Canada, a town * Hannah, a small village in Hannah cum Hagnaby, a civil parish in Lincolnshire, England * Hana, Iran, a city in Isfahan Province * Hanna, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Haná (German spelling: Hanna), an ethnic region in Moravia, Czech Republic * Hannah Island (Greenland) * Hanna Lake, a lake near Quetta, Pakistan Ships * , a destroyer escort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Saara may refer to: Places * Saara, Estonia, a village in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia * Saara, Greiz, a municipality in Thuringia, Germany * Saara, Altenburger Land, a municipality in Thuringia, Germany Other * ''Saara'' (lizard), a genus of lizard in the Uromastycinae subfamily * Saara (name), a female given name * Sara Forsberg, Finnish singer better known as SAARA * (Saara), Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsingin Sanomat
''Helsingin Sanomat'', abbreviated ''HS'' and colloquially known as , is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. Its name derives from that of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, where it is published. It is considered a newspaper of record for Finland. History and profile The paper was founded in 1889 as ''Päivälehti'', when Finland was a Grand Duchy under the Tsar of Russia. Political censorship by the Russian authorities, prompted by the paper's strong advocacy of greater Finnish freedoms and even outright independence, forced Päivälehti to often temporarily suspend publication, and finally to close permanently in 1904. Its proprietors re-opened the paper under its current name in 1905. Founded as the organ of the Young Finnish Party, the paper has been politically independent and non-aligned since 1932. During the Cold War period ''Helsingin Sanomat'' was among the Finn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Cat Yugoslavia
''My Cat Yugoslavia'' ( fi, Kissani Jugoslavia) is the first novel by Pajtim Statovci. The novel explores the lives of a woman in Kosovo and of her son as a refugee in Finland. The book was first published in Finnish in 2014 and in English in 2017. It received the 2014 Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize (Finnish: Helsingin Sanomain kirjallisuuspalkinto) is a Finland, Finnish literary award for a debut novel in the Finnish language. It was founded in 1964. From 1964-1994 it operated under the name J. H. Erkko Award .... It was made into a play and staged at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki in 2018. References 2014 debut novels 2014 novels 21st-century Finnish novels Magic realism novels Novels about cats Novels about immigration Novels set in Finland Novels set in Kosovo {{2010s-specf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pajtim Statovci
Pajtim Statovci (born 1990) is a Finnish novelist. His debut novel, ''Kissani Jugoslavia'', was published in 2014, winning the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for best debut novel in Finnish for that year, and was published in 2017 as ''My Cat Yugoslavia'' in the UK and US. It was made into a play and staged at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki in 2018. His second novel, ''Tiranan sydän'', won the Toisinkoinen Literature Prize for 2016, and was published as ''Crossing'' in the UK and the US in 2019. Early life Statovci was born in Kosovo in 1990 to Albanian parents. In 1992, after the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia, of which Kosovo was a part and where Albanians were persecuted, his family fled to Finland. He studied comparative literature at the University of Helsinki and screenwriting at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Awards 2021: Nominated for the Kirkus Prize for Bolla 2019: Finlandia Award winner for his third novel, Bolla 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erkka Filander
Erkka Filander (born 1993) is a Finnish poet. He is the youngest ever winner of the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize (Finnish: Helsingin Sanomain kirjallisuuspalkinto) is a Finland, Finnish literary award for a debut novel in the Finnish language. It was founded in 1964. From 1964-1994 it operated under the name J. H. Erkko Award ..., awarded by the leading Helsinki newspaper for the best literary debut of the year. Filander won the prize for his collection ''Heräämisen valkea myrsky'' (''The white storm of awakening''). References 21st-century Finnish poets 1993 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Finnish male poets 21st-century male writers {{Finland-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aki Ollikainen
Aki Ollikainen (born 1973) is a Finnish writer. A photographer and journalist by profession, Ollikainen received widespread acclaim for his debut novel ''Nälkävuosi'' (2012), an account of the Finnish famine of 1866–1868. The book won several prizes and has been translated into English by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah under the title ''White Hunger'' (Peirene Press, 2015). Ollikainen lived in Kolari in northern Finland when he wrote ''Nälkävuosi''. His second novel ''Musta satu'' was published in spring 2015. He currently lives in Lohja Lohja (; sv, Lojo) is a city and municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland. The city has a population of 47,518 (2017), and it covers an area of of which , or 8.3 percent, is water. The population density of Lohja is . The municipality is ... in Southern Finland. References Finnish writers 1973 births Living people {{Finland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
