Finnish contemporary literature:
A wealth of voices

Published March 2011

Excerpts from Finland’s burgeoning literary scene: Puhdistus (Purge) by Sofi Oksanen, Pääkallokehrääjä (Death’s-head Moth) by Ilkka Remes, De vackra kusinerna (The Beautiful Cousins) by Mikaela Sundström, Risto Räppääjä (Ricky Rapper) by Sinikka and Tiina Nopola, and Lokikirja (Logbook) by Pirkko Saisio.

Bertolt Brecht once noted that Finns are silent in two languages. Maybe so, but they write in three – Finnish, Swedish and Sámi – and the total number of titles published annually in Finland is tremendous. The country sees the publication of 13,000-14,000 books a year, over 4,500 of them new works. Only in Iceland are more books published per capita.

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