Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
ENG: Johanna Sinisalo is an award-winning Finnish author. She was born in Sodankylä in 1958. During 1984-1997, she worked as a professional designer in advertising, after which she started as a screen…
Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (orig. Seitsemän veljestä). Although Kivi was among the very earl…
Elias Lönnrot was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore.
Markus Nummi is a Finnish director, scriptwriter, and novelist. He has studied cinema in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, and is a son of the poet Lassi Nummi.
Minna Canth, born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson, 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow …
ENG: Aino Kallas' father was a remarkable researcher of folklore, and he died early during Aino's childhood. Aino was married to Oskar Kallas and they has three children, at the time she was still in …
Elmer Rafael Diktonius (1896-1961) was a Finnish poet and prosaist who wrote in Swedish. After and along with Edith Södergran, he was the most significant Finnish-Swedish modernist and a member of the…
Aaro Hellaakoski oli suomalainen runoilija, maantieteilijä ja maantieteen opettaja. Hän oli kotoisin Oulusta ja vietti osan nuoruudestaan Tampereen Pispalassa. Kirjailijana hän kirjoitti runoja, mutta…
Pentti Haanpää (1905–1955) oli kirjailijana erityisesti pohjoisen Suomen ja maaseudun yhteiskuntakriittinen ja realistinen kuvaaja. Häntä pidetään erityisesti novel…
Tommi Kinnunen (b. 1973) was born in Kuusamo, north-east Finland and currently lives in Turku, where he works as a Finnish literature school teacher. His debut novel, Where Four Roads Meet has dominat…
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…
