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Finland. Cool. Breakfast.
This morning, The Frankfurt Academy and Copyright Clearance Center hosted a breakfast for Finland, which will be the Guest of Honor country at next year’s Book Fair. Bringing together both Finnish...
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Samu Haber loves Sofi Oksanen and the Moomins
Currently the best known Finn in Germany, Samu Haber, Sunrise Avenues’s lead vocalist and “The Voice of Germany” juror, reveals his favourite literature in this “Finnland. Cool” interview. Samu Haber...
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Timo Parvela, once a teacher and now successful author of children’s books, is Finnish and will present his country and his books to the interested audience and journalists in Leipzig. We talked to...
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Literature.Cool.
Tiia Strandén and Maria Antas from FILI have curated the literary programme for the Finnish Guest of Honour appearance. Not only for Frankfurt in October, but also for the start of literary spring in...
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Interview with translator Stefan Moster
I met him at the Leipzig Book Fair…he is a reserved man, but from the start you can identify him as an author or translator. Where he originally comes from is hard to guess. I don’t really know what a...
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Finland, a unique comics culture
“Strange, profound and feminine” “There doesn’t seem to be a mainstream at all” “Free of conventions and economic obligations” These are some of the comments we have heard being said about the Finnish...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Tove Jansson
© Moomin Characters This year the famous Finland-Swedish artist, illustrator, caricaturist and author, Tove Jansson, celebrates her 100th birthday. She became world-famous with her popular Moomin...
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