What Westerners weren’t supposed to see

By Peter Marten, February 2009; updated March 2010

Photo: Toni Härkönen
Sofi Oksanen and ten other writers made the shortlist for this year’s Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Finnish Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen talks with us about her bestselling novel Purge. The first book ever to win both the Runeberg Prize and the Finlandia Prize, it also wins the 2010 Nordic Council Literature Prize. And not a moment too soon: The English translation is published in America on April 1, 2010, and Oksanen tours there later in the month.

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