Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian. Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he …
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…
Eeva Karin Kilpi (née Salo; 1928–2026) was a Finnish writer and feminist. Better known abroad than in Finland, her poetry, characterized as feminist humor, was discovered in the 1980s in Europe.
Tomi Kontio (s. 1966 Helsingissä) on ikäpolvensa arvostetuimpia ja kiitetyimpiä runoilijoita. Kontion runoja on käännetty muun muassa englanniksi, espanjaksi, ranskaksi, ruotsiksi, saksaksi, italiaksi…
Caryl Lewis is an award winning Welsh language novelist. She was raised in Aberaeron before moving at the age of twelve to her family's farm in the parish of Dihewyd. She is an alumnus of Durham Unive…
Johanna Frid (1988) er født i Stockholm og bor i København. Hun debuterte i 2017, sammen med Gordana Spasic, med diktsamlingen Familieepos. Nora eller Brenn Oslo brenn er Frids romandebut. Forfatteren…
Frances Stickley grew up in Nottingham and Norwich, where she spent much of her time making up poems and dressing up her dog. She is a trained children’s literacy specialist and a primary school teach…
Perttu Pölönen is a multitalent – an inventor, composer and futurist. He has won the 1st prize in European Union Contest for Young Scientists and has been included among the most brilliant innovators …
