Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He …
PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has…
See also: Robert Galbraith Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating …
Märta Tikkanen (b. April 3, 1935) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer. Born in Helsinki she worked as a reporter for Hufvudstadsbladet from 1956 to 1961. She graduated from the University of Helsinki…
Catherine Doyle grew up in the West of Ireland. She holds a first-class BA in Psychology and a first-class MA in Publishing. She is the author of the Young Adult Blood for Blood trilogy (Vendetta, Inf…
Helmi Kekkonen (s. 1982) on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan yleinen kirjallisuustiede. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Turun yliopiston luovan kirjoittamisen opinto-ohjelmassa ja Krii…
Jukka Viikilä on suomalainen kirjailija ja dramaturgi. Viikilä on valmistunut Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgilinjalta teatteritaiteen kandidaatiksi sekä opiskellut Pop & Jazz Konservatoriossa ja Kriit…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Miira Luhtavaara (s. 1983) asuu Helsingissä ja on koulutukseltaan psykologian maisteri. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa ja kirjoittanut runojen lisäksi tekstejä näytelmiin…
FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia…
Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentia…
