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Helsinki Literary Agency

A literary agency with a broad selection of the best Finnish fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, representing over 120 authors and illustrators.

Helsinki Literary Agency has a strong list of the best Finnish fiction and nonfiction authors. Founded in the beginning of 2017, the agency represents a wide range of award-winning authors writing both in Finnish and Swedish.

06/02/2025

Wonderful news for our children’s list: The Sisters of the Desert by Malin Klingenberg has won the Runeberg Junior Prize 💐✨

This is the second Runeberg Prize for Klingenberg, already awarded for The Fantastic Alfredo. The award is special for the fact that the winner is voted by children readers themselves.
The preliminary jury have chosen the book stating:“[The Sisters of the Desert by Malin] Klingenberg may be to blame if children are groggy in the morning, because it is difficult to put the book away once one has come into the adventures of sisters Saba and Sarina. The Sisters of the Desert contains all the ingredients of an epic fantasy: friendship, family, supernatural powers, and the fight between good and evil.“

The Sisters of the Desert is a beautiful story of adventure, magic, friendship, and sisterly love in a world where some adults are ruthless and children are left to fend for themselves. The book is illustrated by Eeva Nikunen and the Finnish edition is translated from Swedish by Outi Menna.

Malin Klingenberg is one of Finland’s most prominent Swedish-speaking authors. Her extensive production, ranging from picture books all the way to YA, has been loved, read, and translated into many languages all over the world. The Sisters of the Desert marks her fantasy debut, proving she can successfully add one more genre to her impressively polyhedric production. Her works are published in Finland by Schildts & Söderströms

Warmest congratulations to the author!

The Sisters of the Desert by Malin Klingenberg has been awarded the Runeberg Junior Prize. The book has marked Malin Klingenberg’s debut in the fantasy genre. Wonderful news for our children’s list: The Sisters of the Desert by Malin Klingenberg has won the Runeberg Junior Prize. This is the sec...

06/02/2025

Wonderful news for our romance readers: Heir to the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell, in translation by Mattias Huss, is running for the Storytel Awards in Sweden, in the category best novel. The nomination is based on the most listened to and highest rated titles on Storytel in 2024💐✨

The Cotton Mill Trilogy has been a wonderful success in Finland, where it sold over 200.000 copies, and the foreign rights have already been sold to five territories. Antell’s latest work, Christmas at the Cotton Mill, is also running for the Storytel Awards in Finland.

Antell’s works are published in Finland by Gummerus. In Sweden, they are published by Storytel.

Warmest congratulations to the author and the publisher, and fingers crossed!

Heir to the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell is running for the Storytel Awards in Sweden. Antells’s latest work, Christmas at the Cotton Mill, is also running for the Storytel Awards in Finland. Wonderful news for our romance readers: Heir to the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell, in translati...

05/02/2025

Suliko by Pirkko Saisio has been awarded the Runeberg Prize. This is the first Runeberg win for Saisio, who is celebrating 50 years of authorship this year ✨❤️

The jury have motivated their choice as follows:
“The winner of this year’s Runeberg Prize is a raw and poetic portrait of one of world’s history most notorious tyrants. Despite its historical context the novel also tells about us and the world we now live in. With her deft touch, focused and crystal-clear, the author captures both the boundless evil of the human soul and its vulnerability. A masterpiece.”

Saisio's production is now with right part of world literature, and she is regarded as the grand dame of Finnish literature. In Finland, her works are published by Siltala Kustannus.

Warmest congratulations to the author and the publisher!💐

Suliko by Pirkko Saisio has been awarded the Runeberg Prize. This is the first Runeberg win for Saisio, who is celebrating 50 years of authorship this year. Suliko by Pirkko Saisio has won the Runeberg Prize which, named after the Finnish national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, is considered the second...

03/02/2025

Pirkko Saisio has been awarded the Vartio Award for her authorship and life's work. 💐✨

The jury have highlighted that Saisio is being awarded for her innovative production, which has renewed the literary scene in Finland and continues to reach and speak to new generations. The jury, consisting of journalist Anna-Liisa Haavikko, author Helena Ruuska, and publisher Urpu Strellman, have stated:

"In Finnish literature Saisio's works form a unique, exceptionally multifaceted and unparalleled whole. The rhythm and breath in Saisio's novels often consists of a narrative built on a short paragraph and of a movement between the interior and the exterior, the observed and the experienced. The reader is pulled onto the scene, into the shoes of the speaker and their observations and memories, in constant movement. When the text draws its breath space is made for the reader's own experience. [...]

Saisio's autofictional trilogy – The Lowest Common Multiple (1998), The Backlight (2000), and The Red Book of Farewells (2003) – set the bar for autofiction already in a time, where no one spoke of autofiction yet. Now, a quarter of a century later, the trilogy is a part of world literature. In her most recent works, Passion (2021) and Suliko (2024) Saisio does something, that she's done many times before – that is to say, she does something she's never done before. Passion runs through history and centuries; it is a great European chronicle and a great adventure, whose mystery is man. In Suliko the protagonist is for the first time a real historical character. In these books a leitmotif that runs through Saisio's production is brought to the fore: the investigation of what is the essence of the human life and the soul. Many of Saisio's works have renewed and challenged the Finnish literary scene at the time of their publishing. Today they are a living whole, that has lasted time and that still speaks to new readers and new generations. This is the definition of a classic".

In Finland, Saisio's production is published by Siltala.

Warmest congratulations to the author!

Author Pirkko Saisio has been awarded the Vartio Award for her life’s work and her authorship as a whole. Pirkko Saisio has been awarded the Vartio Award for her authorship and life’s work. The jury have highlighted that Saisio is being awarded for her innovative production, which has renewed th...

23/01/2025

Wonderful news for our children’s list: the Vietnamese rights to The Mythicals series by Miila Westin and Radio Popov by Anja Portin have been sold to Kim D**g in a three-book deal.

The Mythicals series is a graphic novel series that beautifully blends together Finnish mythology, adventure, and stunning illustrations. In Endless Winter (Mythicals #1) we follow little Eevi, who is mourning the loss of her grandfather while snow continues to fall, even though it’s June. One day, after receiving a curious necklace from her grandmother, Eevi starts to see forest creatures, like Otso the gnome and the crop elves, whose existence she ignored. They know why winter seems to be endless, and have a plan to save spring that will lead them all the way to the Underworld. It’s their chance to save the spring, but is it also Eevi’s chance to bring Grandpa back?

In A Dangerous Dream (Mythicals #2) Eevi is lonely: after their successful adventure, none of her friends has been in touch, and no one believed her when she explained what happened. Then, one night Otso comes knocking at her window and asking for her help. His sister is sick, and Eevi’s necklace could be the key to saving her, so she goes along. But why does Eevi keep having scary dreams? And are they really just dreams?

Radio Popov by Anja Portin is one of the most successful children’s books of the last years: it won the Finlandia Junior upon its release, and has already travelled to 25 language territories. Radio Popov follows Alfred, a nine-year-old boy who lives virtually alone. His mother is not in the picture and his father is constantly busy with work and business trips. His unhappy sighs are the beginning of a wonderful adventure that will lead Alfred to a new family, and to saving more forgotten children. Alfred’s story is moving, and touches on social issues, but also contains joy, friendship, and a happy ending. The story, where children are left to their own devices with their problems in the face of absent or unhelpful adults is reminiscent of literary classics like the works of Astrid Lindgren and Roald Dahl.

Kim D**g is the leading publishing house in Vietnam and the largest publishing house for children’s literature, boasting over 1000 titles per year.

All three titles are published in Finland by Kustantamo S&S.

Warm congratulations to the authors and the publishers!

The Mythicals series by Milla Westin and international bestseller Radio Popov by Anja Portin are now travelling to Vietnam, where they will be published by Kim D**g. Wonderful news for our children’s list: the Vietnamese rights to The Mythicals series by Miila Westin and Radio Popov by Anja Portin...

22/01/2025

Storytel has published its list of nominees for the Storytel Awards, and we love to see several HLA titles making the list: Wept Another by Merja Mäki, Christmas at the Falke Castle, one of the three novellas in Christmas at the Cotton Mill by Ann-Christin Antell, and Penelope and the Curious Clothing Commotion by Saara Kekäläinen & Reetta Niemensivu have been nominated in the categories of literary fiction, romance, and children’s literature.

Storytel Awards are given to books in the categories of literary fiction, crime and thriller, romance and feel-good, nonfiction and children’s literature on a yearly basis. The winners are chosen among the nominees by the users’ vote and by a professional jury, and will be announced on March 13th at the Storytel Awards Gala.

Wept Another follows Larja, a young woman from Eastern Karelia. It is 1942, and peace has momentarily descended on this bit of territory recently reclaimed from the Soviets by Finnish troops. Larja has been studying at a teacher training camp and upon her return to her home village she has to come to terms with the fact that nothing is as it was. Her grandmother Matja, the village’s most-respected professional lamenter, is deathly ill, and her little sister Pola carries a secret deep within her heart. After a Finnish man steps into her life, Larja finds herself again torn between two different worlds. Wept Another is the story of a young woman who has grown up between two cultures on the border of two countries. It is a tale of roots and the ties that bind us, but above all, of the choices that you must make in life.

Christmas at the Cotton Mill is a festive collection of short stories set in the same fictional world as the successful Cotton Mill trilogy, which follows three generations of the Barker family throughout the decades. Christmas at the Cotton Mill follows each of the three generations giving readers new insight into their family life, Christmas traditions, and backstory. In Christmas at the Falke Castle it is 1939 and Paula Falke (née Barker) is charged with planning Christmas for the whole family and the workers of the factory while her husband is fighting at the front. A happy ending seems impossible, but hope springs everlasting and the Falke family is in for a joyful Christmas after all.

Both titles are published in FInland by Gummerus Kustannus.

In Penelope and the Curious Clothing Commotion Penelope is learning to get dressed by herself, but she has a sneaking suspicion that the clothes have it in for her. If she does not watch out, the knotted tights will bunch her in as well. Is there a gnome living in their house, one who nibbles a tissue sample off every sock and eats a sock from each pair? What if Penelope gets lost inside her clothes and pops out of a sleeve and into the wrong story? Or accidentally puts on Dad’s shirt and has to shave and go to work every morning?

In Finland, the Penelope series is published by TAMMI.

Congratulations to all nominees, and fingers crossed!❤

Penelope and the Curious Clothing Commotion by Saara Kekäläinen and Reetta Niemensivu, Wept Another by Merja Mäki, and Christmas at the Falke Castle by Ann-Christin Antell are running for the Storytel Awards. Storytel has published its list of nominees for the Storytel Awards, and we love to see ...

20/01/2025

The Lit-Quest Europe project continues for the second year, and a new call for literary professionals and the Residence Program of 2025 is open.

The Literary Professionals Residence Program is a part of the Lit-Quest Europe project, which is a cooperative initiative involving Publishing House Goga (Slo), Sandorf (Cro), and Helsinki Literary Agency (Fi). The Lit-Quest Europe project receives support from the EU Creative Europe program.

The Literary Professionals Residence Program for 2025 is open to welcome literary agents, editors and other literary professionals involved in promotion of authors and foreign rights from all eligible countries within the EACEA program:

EU Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

Non-EU Countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

The program particularly emphasizes literary professionals who possess extensive experience in their field, are accustomed to delivering lectures, and are proficient in the English language. We aim to enable the participation of literary professionals of all ages and genders, with a common criterion: their knowledge will have a meaningful impact on the countries of their residence.

For the year 2025, the call for applications is open for 9 literary professionals. Each residency will have a duration of 5 days, scheduled between June 1st and November 30th, 2025.

Number of Residencies:
– Goga Publishing (Slovenia – Novo mesto): 3 residencies

– Sandorf (Croatia – Zagreb): 3 residencies

– Helsinki Literary Agency (Finland – Helsinki): 3 residencies

The fellowship for literary professionals will include:

-A 5-night stay in an apartment

– Travel costs (up to 500 EUR)

-Accommodation costs (up to 150 EUR per night)

-Subsistence costs (50 EUR per person)

-Selected literary professionals will be required to complete a questionnaire
provided by literary agents who are also part of this project.

-Lectures will be recorded and disseminated on the project page.

-All literary professionals will have the opportunity to meet local literary
professionals of the host country and other individuals from the
publishing field.

All application materials should be submitted in English. The
application deadline is February 15th, 2025. The selection will be
conducted by the Board of the Lit-Quest Europe Project.

For additional questions regarding the call, please contact us via email: [email protected].

Applicants will be notified of the jury’s decision via email by Friday, March
7th, 2025.

20/01/2025

Suliko by Pirkko Saisio is starting its journey out into the world: it is now travelling to Hungary and Denmark✨📚

In Hungary Suliko will be published by Polar Könyvek and in Denmark it will be published by Jensen & Dalgaard. Suliko is a lyrical and intense novel where a disillusioned dictator reflects on his life on a cold New Year’s Eve. The only thing that seems to bring him comfort is Suliko, a song from his youth that has become a leitmotif throughout his entire life. The novel slips into flashbacks, describing how his idealism turned into something completely different, and the events flash him by until he can hardly recognize himself.

Pirkko Saisio is the author of the globally successful Helsinki Trilogy, and the great dame of Finnish literature, with a production ranging from novels to plays. Her The Red Book of Farewells (Helsinki Trilogy #3) and Passion have recently been included in the Readers’ and Critics’ Selections of the 100 Best Books from Finland.

Polar is a Hungarian publishing house specialising in Nordic literature. It is the Hungarian home of, among others, Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, A Wooden Prayer by Antti Hurskainen, and many others.

Jensen & Dalgaard is a Danish publishing house with a carefully curated selection of international literature. They are the Danish home of The Pelican’s New Clothes by Leena Krohn, Matara by Matias Riikonen, Destruction by Iida Rauma, and 101 Ways To Kill Your Husband by Lindstedt & Vuola, among others.

In Finland, Suliko is published by Siltala Kustannus.

Congratulations to the author and the publishers!❤

Suliko by Pirkko Saisio is travelling to Hungary and Denmark, where it will be published by Polar and Jensen & Dalgaard respectively. Suliko by Pirkko Saisio is starting its journey out into the world: this title is travelling to Hungary and Denmark. In Hungary Suliko will be published by Polar and....

16/01/2025

The Finnish Comics Society Suomen sarjakuvaseura ry has awarded author and illustrator Ulla Donner with the Puupäähattu Prize for her works and authorship💐✨

They have motivated their choice as follows:

“Donner has created her own design language, where for instance the typography becomes a part of the image. This obeys the fundamental idea of comics: the interplay of word and image. Into every page there’s more content than what it looks like at a first glance. Moomins and memes have given stylistic influences, but above all it is the author’s own voice that is heard and seen. The humor in the books is insightful, Donner is not being mean but rather creating likeable contemporary satire. Donner’s works show, how serious subjects can be dealt with in a warm and understanding way”.

Ulla Donner (b.1988) is an author and illustrator whose three books – Spleenish, Crap, and The Natural Comedy – have been welcomed with enthusiasm from critics and readers alike.

Spleenish (2017) explores the struggle of young people trying to fit in and stand out at the same time, and the frustration that follows.

Donner’s second work, Crap, explores the contradictions and dangers of capitalism by following a group of artsy young people working at a trendy advertising agency. The promotion campaign of the latest revolutionary product, a potato-based high-protein sausage, sets in motion a chain of unexpected events with larger consequences than expected. Crap was awarded with the Finlandia Comics Prize upon its release, and is currently out in French with Atrabile.

The Natural Comedy is Ulla Donner’s latest work, and it has been reviewed as her masterpiece. Born as a twist on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, the work follows Birch, a leaf who makes a crash landing on Candy after falling off a tree on the way to the Great Autumn Party. The reluctant duo embark on a roadtrip through the forest, which has been destroyed by mankind, and encounter a string of weird characters along the way. Donner’s pencil stuns readers with vivid illustrations rich in blues, whites and yellows that bring the forest to life and give the main characters rounded, Moomin-like and extremely cute features. The work won the Urhunden Prize in Sweden, and has already been sold to Poland.

All of Ulla Donner’s works have been nominated for the Most Beautiful Book of the Year Award. In Finland, her production is published by Schildts & Söderströms.

Warmest congratulations to the author and the publisher!❤

The Finnish Comics Society has awarded author and illustrator Ulla Donner with the Puupäähattu Prize for her works and authorship. They have motivated their choice as follows: “Donner has created her own design language, where for instance the typography becomes a part of the image. This obeys t...

16/01/2025

More amazing news: The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is travelling to Bulgaria, where it will be published by Colibri. This is the second foreign deal for this title🌱💚✨

The Thick of the Forest is set in a near future where nature has started fighting back against human exploitation, destroying the world as we know it. Mixing elements from Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in the unique setting of a Finnish forest capable of utter destruction, The Thick of the Forest is an entrancing and linguistically captivating first novel about a forest that haunts people and two women, Edla and Ingrid, whose stories intersect.

The result is a rich telling of the relationship between mankind and nature, and of how the lines dividing them become increasingly blurry in the depth of the forest. In Finland, the book is published by Gummerus Kustannus and was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for the best debut of the year.

Colibri is a Bulgarian publishing house with a broad list, including classics like Zola and Shakespeare, prominent contemporary authors like Salman Rushdie, Ian Mc Ewan, Joel Dicker, and our very own Selja Ahava.

Warm congratulations to the author and the publisher!

The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is now travelling to Bulgaria, where it will be published by Colibri. More amazing news: The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen is travelling to Bulgaria, where it will be published by Colibri. This is the second foreign deal for this title. The T...

15/01/2025

Fishing For the Little Pike by Juhani Karila has been nominated for the globally prestigious Dublin Literary Award. The novel was translated into English by Lola Rogers, and is published by Restless Books in the US and Pushkin Press in the UK and Ireland with the title Summer Fishing in Lapland🧚‍♂️🎣

Fishing For the Little Pike by Juhani Karila has been a long-standing success: originally published in Finland by Siltala Kustannus in 2019, this title has since travelled to 20 language territories all over the world, enchanting readers and critics alike with its quirky atmosphere and fast-paced and multi-faceted plot. The book follows young Elina as she returns to her hometown in Eastern Lapland on her yearly quest to fish a specific pike out of a specific pond. Her life and an old lover's depend on it, but this year a detective is on her trail, and the pond has a new inhabitant.

The Dublin Literary Award is regarded as one of the most significant literary awards globally. The award is aimed at books either produced in English or translated into English globally. A longlist is created on a yearly basis from invited public libraries from all over the world. A panel of judges then picks a shortlist of ten titles, from which a winner is selected and announced during the International Literature Festival in Dublin.

The choice of Karila's novel, has been commented by the nominating libraried as follows:
"Every sentence in Fishing for a Little Pike is a joy to read. It is a charming blend of reality and magic. The activities of believable characters in the beautiful Northeastern Finland are occasionally interrupted, aided, or observed by characters from local folklore. In this book there are both harsh realities and more comical sides of life as well as aspects of being human and something so recognizably Finnish. The translation from Finnish by Lola Rogers is smooth and flowing and conveys this unique story well."(Tartu Public Library)

"Summer Fishing in Lapland is a quirky, exhilarating and utmostly original novel located in Finnish Lapland (Sápmi). It is a story about young Elina’s both adventurous and magical trip to her home village to taim a mythical spike – otherwise both Elina and her loved one will die. Weird creatures and shenenigans of northern nature fill the trip and the story with absurd pleasure." (Helsinki City Library / Pasila Library)

Fishing For The Little Pike is Juhani Karila's debut novel. Karila, journalist and previously author of short stories and novella, won the Kalevi Jäntti Prize, the Silver Foreword Indies Award and received several nominations for this title.

In a recent Helsingin Sanomat newspaper ranking, Fishing For the Little Pike was ranked #4 in the list of 100 Best Books of the Century from Finland picked by readers, and #14 in the list of 100 Best Books of the Century from Finland in the list picked by critics.

Warm congratulations to the author and the publishers, and fingers crossed!✨

Fishing For the Little Pike by Juhani Karila has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, one of the most significant literary awards globally. Fishing For the Little Pike by Juhani Karila has been nominated for the globally prestigious Dublin Literary Award. The novel was translated into Engli...

09/01/2025

We’ll Just Ride Past by Ellen Strömberg has been shortlisted for the Mare di Libri Prize in Italy 🚲❤️

The Italian edition of the book is published by Terre di mezzo Editore in translation by Samanta Milton Knowles. For the Mare di Libri Prize a jury of experts picks a shortlist, and the winner is selected by readers aged 14-16 across Italy. Mare di Libri (literally "sea of books") is also a literary festival for young readers, taking place in Rimini every June.

We'll Just Ride Past follows Manda and Malin, a duo of best friends in ninth grade. They are nicknamed The Bicycles as they cycle everywhere looking for fun and something to do in a small town where nothing ever happens. One day Malin develops a crush on a guy working at the local pizzeria, and a series on events – both fun and not so fun – begins to unfold. We’ll Just Ride Past is an accurate portrayal of a moment in life where it’s perfectly normal to change style and music taste every week and the world awaits.

We’ll Just Ride Past won the August Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Sweden, in 2022 and its rights has already been sold for Italian, Korean, Slovenian, Polish, and Catalan. In Finland it is published by Schildts & Söderströms

Ellen Strömberg is a Swedish-speaking Finnish author whose production ranges from picture books to novels. We'll Just Ride Past was a domestic and international success and her latest YA novel No Beginning No End has been received with warm praise. It is the story of Benjamin, a shy teenage boy dealing with his mother's death, as he grows close with Tristan, a mysterious boy.

Congratulations to the author and the publisher, and fingers crossed!

We’ll Just Ride Past by Ellen Strömberg has been shortlisted for the Mare di Libri Prize in Italy, where it is published by Terre di Mezzo. We’ll Just Ride Past by Ellen Strömberg has been shortlisted for the Mare di Libri Prize in the category Fiction in Italy. The Italian edition of the book...

07/01/2025

Things That Fall From The Sky by Selja Ahava continues its journey out into the world and is now travelling to Italy, where it will be published by Barta Edizioni. This is the 28th language territory for this title, already winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2015, and longlisted for various prestigious awards, including the Warwick Prize and the DUBLIN Award.

Things That Fall From The Sky tells the story of a combination of extremely unlikely events: it follows a little girl whose mother is killed by a block of ice falling from the sky, her aunt who wins the lottery twice and then falls into a weeks-long sleep, and a man who has been struck by lightning five times. Things That Fall From The Sky is a literary, touching, unconventional fairytale about how life demands to be lived, no matter what absurd events may befall people.

Selja Ahava is an acclaimed Finnish author, dramaturge, and scriptwriter. All her novels have been received with glowing reviews and award nominations and wins. Her works are published in Finland by Gummerus Kustannus.

Barta is a beautiful Tuscany-based publishing house whose list includes a selection of fiction, non-fiction, children's books and comics. They pride in publishing the books that they'd like to read themselves, and curate their selections with attention and creativity.

Congratulations to the publisher and the author!

Things That Fall From The Sky by Selja Ahava is travelling to Italy, where it will be published by Barta. Things That Fall From The Sky by Selja Ahava continues its journey out into the world and is now travelling to Italy, where it will be published by Barta. This is the 28th language territory …...

27/12/2024

Pirkko Saisio’s The Red Book of Farewells has been crowned by the HS – Helsingin Sanomat national newspaper as the most important Finnish book of the millennium 📚❤️

Helsingin Sanomat, the largest national newspaper in Finland, has compiled a list of the best 100 Finnish books of the millennium selected by literary critics and book industry professionals, and The Red Book of Farewells is topping the list. The choice is motivated as follows:

Eleonoora Riihinen, literary critic: “[The Red Book of Farewells] is a work that was ahead of its time in many ways, and it has become a modern classic. It documents a moment of the political movement in Helsinki in the 70s in the student community and the le***an culture of the time. The emotions of falling in love and breaking up are loaded into a fragmentary and apparently light-hearted text in a touching way, but amazingly also in a way that is at the same time casual but elevated. “

Finnish Book Foundation Board Chair Mari Koli: “Pirkko Saisio’s Helsinki trilogy third and last part is a dazzling novel that transcends the autobiographical boundaries whose wistful snapshot of Helsinki in the 1970s and 1980s you’ll be happy to carry with you for a long time. And what about Saisio’s staggering theatrical sense! She builds immaculate dialogues into the middle of memory fragments, smaller plays infiltrated into the story that will stun even the most experienced reader. I can’t help but be moved and say thank you, Saisio, for existing and for writing”.

Pirkko Saisio’s production is in a league of its own in the Finnish literary scene: the Helsinki Trilogy received three Finlandia Prize nomination and one win, and it has been a wild success internationally. In the German-speaking world The Lowest Common Multiple, in German translation by Elina Kritzokat and edition by Klett Cotta has been ranked in the Best 100 Books of the 21st century on NZZ am Sonntag newspaper, and it has received splendid reviews in the French- and Dutch-speaking world where it’s out with Robert Laffont, and in Czech Republic, where it’s out with Host. The Helsinki trilogy also made Saisio the first contemporary Finnish author to be included in the Penguin Modern Classics.

Pirkko Saisio has released a new novel this autumn, Suliko, which is a deep, lyrical dive in the mind of a dictator approaching death. In Finland, it is published by Siltala Kustannus and is currently nominated for the Runeberg Prize.

Warm thanks to Helsingin Sanomat, and warmest congratulations to the author! ✨

Pirkko Saisio’s The Red Book of Farewells has been crowned by the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper as the most important Finnish book of the millennium. The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio, the third and last volume of the wildly successful Helsinki Trilogy, has been crowned by the Helsingin San...

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Susanna Hast | The Body of Evidence “It’s a story about a woman who is searching for her memory. She has not forgotten enough to go on with her life but she doesn’t remember enough to remember who she is and what happened to her.” @susannahast, the author of The Body of Evidence on how one writes about the things one cannot remember. #susannahast #bodyofevidence #ruumishuoneet #autotheory #kustantamossa #sets #literaturefromfinland #booksfromfinland #HLA #helsinkiliteraryagency #audiomini #avektukee @AVEKfi

Juha Kauppinen | The Essential Biodiversity “We want to exploit nature. We cant think of ourselves as part of the natural world. And we miss the point that diversity is something that is essential to all life, everywhere.” @juha_kauppinen, the author of the Essential Biodiversity on biodiversity and our complex relationship with it. #juhakauppinen #theessentialbiodiversity #biodiversity #monimuotoisuus #biodiversityloss #eliökato #siltala #nonfiction #literaturefromfinland #booksfromfinland #HLA #helsinkiliteraryagency #audiomini #avektukee @AVEKfi

Ann-Christin Antell | The Cotton Mill Series “I got the the idea of this series in a dream. I had a dream ten years ago and I saw the main characters of the first book. But it took many years before I had time to start writing.” @antellannchristin , the author of the super popular historical romance series tells us about her creative process. #annchristinantell #thecottonmilltrilogy #cottonmill #puuvillatehdas #gummerus #historicalfiction #literaturefromfinland #booksfromfinland #HLA #helsinkiliteraryagency #audiomini #avektukee @AVEKfi

Antti Leikas • The Quantum Gnomes We managed to get a hold of this video, where author Leikas sheds light on how he got involved with the gnomes – and the unraveling of the universe! Part 1. The Quantum Gnomes is a fast-paced picaresque novel with a spec-fic twist – an absurd adventure that refuses to submit to the laws of time and place. As the structures of the universe begin to tremble, a peculiar chain of events is set in motion, with author Kirjailija Antti Leikas and a group of gnomes playing their parts, too.

HLA Live

NotTooSeriously: Marcus Rosenlund

Mr Marcus Rosenlund, ladies and gentlemen! Hear him talk about his phenomenal nonfiction The Weather that Changed the World and reveal which word sounds like a machine gun. Music credit: Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com #NotTooSeriously #WritersVideos #SpringCatalogue2020 Helsinki Literary Agency Schildts & Söderströms Kustantamo S&S Cser Kiadó Garzanti Libri Elefanta Editorial KAPLUMBaA «Видавництво Анетти Антоненко»

NotTooSeriously: Anna-Liisa Ahokumpu

Anna-Liisa Ahokumpu sends her symphonic greetings! Have a look! Music credit: Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com #NotTooSeriously #WritersVideos Helsinki Literary Agency Gummerus Kustannus FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange

NotTooSeriously: Juhani Karila

What can be better than cheeky monsters? Absolutely nothing! Juhani Karila sends his greetings - espeecially to the person who wrote that review. We hope he's watching, because Fishing for the Little Pike is simply fantastic! Music credit: Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com #NotTooSeriously #WritersVideos #SpringCatalogue2020 Helsinki Literary Agency Siltala Kustannus La Peuplade Jensen & Dalgaard Wydawnictwo Marpress Metropolis Media FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange

NotTooSeriously: Malin Klingenberg

Did someone order a really good mood for the entire weekend? Malin Klingenberg in all her non-seriousness about her wonderful collaboration with Sanna Mander, The Life of Fart. Check it out! Music credit: Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com #NotTooSeriously #WritersVideos #SpringCatalogue2020 Helsinki Literary Agency Schildts & Söderströms Kustantamo S&S Kirjastus Tänapäev Rabén & Sjögren Pushkin Press FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange

NotTooSeriously: Marjo Niemi

Brilliant Marjo Niemi has written a novel that might just be the funniest book about... Find out in a new video! Music credit: Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com #NotTooSeriously #WritersVideos Helsinki Literary Agency Kustannusosakeyhtiö Teos FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange

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