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Authors' Calendar - Nordic authors - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/nordic.htm

Index of Nordic authors in this calendar

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Finnish Literature Forum - English
URL: http://www.kaapeli.fi/flf/westerbe.htm

Essays and interviews about literature problems and translation theory, reviews, and texts.

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Finnish Literature Catalog - English
URL: http://www.raivaaja.org/cat0fin0lit.html

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Finnish literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/fi/FinnishLit.html

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The first printed work in Finnish was the ABC book published c.1542 by Bishop Michael Agricola (1508–57). In 1642 the first complete translation of the Bible in Finnish appeared in Stockholm. Until the 19th cent. most of the writing done by Finns was in Swedish, since from the 13th cent. to 1809 Finland was in political vassalage to Sweden.

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The changeful Way of Estonian-Finnish Literature Relationships - English
URL: http://www.suri.ee/inf/eestien.html

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Endel Mallene

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Finnish Literature - English
URL: http://www.glbtq.com/literature/finnish_lit.html

Since the 1960s, Finnish authors and critics have written openly about both gay male and lesbian sexuality in both Finnish and Swedish.

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Jukka M. Heikkilд - Historical fiction - English
URL: http://www.kolumbus.fi/j.m.heikkila/index.html

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Jukka Heikkilä (b. 1966) has a Master of Science degree from Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He lives in the environs of Helsinki, Finland, and is married with two children.

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Minna Canth (1844 - 1897) - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/mcanth.htm

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Finnish playwright and short-story writer who described women's position in the society and advocated contemporary radical social ideas in magazine articles. During the early years of the young Finnish Theatre - the National Theatre was founded in 1872 - Canth's plays were performed on its stage more often than Shakespeare's. She was the first notable Finnish social realist, whose work showed the influence of Henrik Ibsen and Georg Brandes.

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Anni Swan (1875-1958) - Anni Emilia Manninen - used also pen name A.S. - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/anniswan.htm

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Finnish writer and translator, who wrote mainly for children. Swan's fairy tales were influenced by world literature folk tales, and combined realistic elements with fantasy. In her work differences between social classes create conflicts - the main character is often treated wrong, but wins at the end like in 'Cinderella'. One or two generations of Finnish children were educated in the spirit of her teachings. However, in Swan's stories the pedagogical material did not have the same significance as in Topelius's work. Swan's Christian world view reflected more or less subdued from her publications .

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Mauri Kunnas - English
URL: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kunnas.html

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Mauri Kunnas, Children's writer, illustrator, cartoonist

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Volter Kilpi (1874-1939) - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/vkilpi.htm

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surname until 1886 Ericsson. Essayist and novelist, pioneer of Finnish modernist literature. Kilpi's major novel is ALASTALON SALISSA (2 vols, 1933), a long and nostalgic book compared to the works of Proust and Joyce. Kilpi's family name was really Ericsson, but he and his two brothers adopted the Finnish surname.

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Kalle Pддtalo (1919-2000) - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/paatalo.htm

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Finnish writer, former building construction supervisor, whose books were national bestsellers every autumn when they appeared before the Father's Day. Päätalo's major work, the nearly 17 000 pages long autobiographical IIJOKI series, depicts the author's own path from the backwoods of Northeast Finland to the publication of his first book and to literary fame. The last part of the series, PÖLHÖKANTO IIJOEN TÖRMÄSSÄ (1998), finished his 28-year long writing job. Päätalo died two years later.

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Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877) - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/runeberg.htm

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The national poet of Finland who wrote in Swedish, and also exercised a great influence on Swedish literature. Runeberg's poetry has been compared to that of the great European romantics, such as Hugo, Shelley, Keats, Lermontov and Petöfi. He was the first Finnish writer to achieve a broad national significance and a wide international fame.

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Aaro Hellaakoski (1893-1952) - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/aarohell.htm

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Poet, Ph.D. (in geology), pioneer of modernism in literature in Finland. With his use of a seemingly limitless vocabulary and meters that differed from the norm, Hellaakoski showed new directions for poetry. He wrote some twelve collections, but ceased writing poetry from the late 1920s to 1940, concentrating during those years to teaching and researching.

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Pentti Saarikoski (1937-1983) - - English
URL: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/psaariko.htm

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Poet and a brilliant translator, the central figure in Finnish literature in the 1960s and 1970s. Saarikoski emerged into poetry somewhat like a enfant terrible, a combination of John Lennon and Zorba the Greek. He wrote in simple, straight-forward language. He often used images from antiquity and contrasted everyday observations with philosophical insights, following the free flow of thoughts.

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The Weight of the Written Word - English
URL: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/literat.html

Finnish Literature Today; written in autumn 2003

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FINNISH LITERATURE - English
URL: http://www.utu.fi/hum/kkirjallisuus/engl.html

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DEPARTMENT OF ART, LITERATURE AND MUSIC KOTIMAINEN KIRJALLISUUS FINNISH LITERATURE

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FILI - Suomen kirjallisuuden tiedotuskeskus - Finnish
URL: http://www.finlit.fi/fili/

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FILI on kirjallisuuden kääntämistä edistävä tiedotuskeskus, joka lisää Suomen kirjallisuuden tuntemusta ulkomailla sekä tukee suomenkielisen, suomenruotsalaisen ja saamenkielisen kauno- ja tietokirjallisuuden kääntämistä ja julkaisemista muille kielille. FILI tukee myös kauno- ja tietokirjallisuuden suomentamista sekä tieteellisen ja tietokirjallisuuden ruotsintamista.

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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura - Finnish
URL: http://www.finlit.fi/index.htm

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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (SKS): tieteellinen seura, kulttuurijärjestö, tutkimus- ja tietokeskus, kustannustalo

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The birth of Finnish literature - English
URL: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kirjaeng.html

Literature in medieval Finland Missale Aboense Manuale Aboense Literature of the early Reformation period: Michael Agricola (ca 1510-1557) Paulus Juusten (1516-1576) Jacobus Petri Finno (ca 1540-1588) Ericus Erici Sorolainen (ca 1546-1625) Development of literature after the Reformation The first complete Bible in the Finnish language, 1642

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