I’m currently finishing up a translation of Seppo Jokinen’s award-winning Hukan enkelit (working title Wolves and Angels) for Ice Cold Crime. More details will be coming soon as ICC ramps up marketing, but suffice it to say that this is one of the best old-school detective novels I’ve seen come out of Finland. I cared about the characters from the very beginning, and I wasn’t sure “whodunnit” until the end. In other words, take a bow, Mr. Jokinen!
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Pop over to Books from Finland for my translation of Jyrki Lehtola’s latest column on the media. Then think for a few minutes about whether Facebook Timeline is an interesting new feature or a hellish reminder that you can never truly escape your digital past.. In the new media it’s easy for our pet-hatreds to be introduced to anyone who is interested. And of course everyone is interested, how else could it be? Jyrki Lehtola investigates… Read More: Hatefully Yours — Jyrki Lehtola 
2011, Tapisodes and Tammi by Jukka Lemmetty From the developer: In this second book in the Alpo series, Alpo sets off on a new adventure with his friend Jimmy. When Alpo hurts his leg, Jimmy puts him in ambulance-pram and drives him to the zoo, where animals can be well looked after. But all the animals at the zoo are too busy to help Alpo. Until Alpo and Jimmy meet a wonderful lady at the ice-cream stall… The first of the Alpo series to be available on iPhone and iPad. Choose to listen along to charming narration by Sean Connolly, … Read More: Alpo Finds Alma // Alpo löytää Alman 
By Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen Get ready for another rollicking ride with the boys from Oddsville, this time through the 2012 World Design Capital! More info coming soon, looking forward to a spring, 2012 publication date.
Tatu and Patu’s This is Finland (Published) Tatu and Patu’s Adventures in Outer Space (Sample) Tatu and Patu as Superheroes! (Sample) Tatu and Patu’s Oddball Bedtime Book (Sample) Tatu and Patu’s Amazing Alphabet (Sample)… Read More: Tatu and Patu in Helsinki // Tatu ja Patu Helsingissä 
Strange Things Aftoot — The Animals’ World II
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| Laittomat [Outside the Law] by Tuomas Lius (LIKE) Tuomas Lius — Outside the Law — Sample Translation (PDF) Fully synopsis also available. |
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| Pakonopeus [Escape Velocity] by Taavi Soininvaara (Otava) Taavi Soininvaara — Escape Velocity — Sample (PDF) |
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| Viides tuuli [The Fifth Wind] by Päivi Honkapää (WSOY) Päivi Honkapää — The Fifth Wind — Sample (PDF) |
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| Meren alku [The Beginning of the Sea] by Päivi Honkapää (WSOY) Päivi |
Read More: 12 Samples — More Details to Come
By Kirsti Ellilä
From the Burning Bridge Agency project:
Romantic horror stories
Kirsti Ellilä’s (b. 1958) short stories will be a surprise to readers who expect routine romantic short prose: her stories are literally strange, stories about human relationships in which romance intersects with elements of crime, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Ellilä has demonstrated herself to be an excellent short-story writer with a first-rate ability for describing human relationships, no matter what the genre.
Kirsti Ellilä is a generalist writer who lives in Turku and has published books for children, teens, and …
Read More: Strange Love / Outoa rakkautta
The incomparable debut collection from the Finnish science fiction guru.
M. G. Soikkeli belongs to the absolute top names in new Finnish science fiction literature. The most notable Finnish sci-fi prize, the Portti magazine competition, has already been won by Soikkeli on three occasions. Longing for Mars was also nominated for the Tähtivaeltaja Prize for best published Finnish science fiction book in 2008.
The stories in Longing for Mars, which expertly plumb the different trends in the genre, show that sci-fi is more than entertainment. Soikkeli’s sociological short stories are a splendid example of the possibilities for the science …
Read More: Longing for Mars / Marsin ikävä
Ihmisen osa, Siltala, 2009.
From Finlandia Prize winning author Kari Hotakainen. Awarded the Runeberg Prize for fiction, 2010.
Translation complete and headed for the presses soon!
To be published in English by Christopher MacLehose/Quercus (publishers of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy) in 2011.
From the WSOY foreign rights guide:
A fearlessly tragic and deeply humorous novel about how, now more than ever, we buy and sell things with rhetoric. This is Kari Hotakainen at the top of his craft.
A writer buys a life from Salme Malmikunnas, an 80-year-old former yarn seller. You can get a …
Read More: The Human Lot / Ihmisen osa
By Juhani Aho, 1884.
Translation complete and headed for the presses soon!
In 2011, Norvick Press will publish my translation of Finnish author Juhani Aho’s Rautatie (The Railroad). Although not the first author to write fiction in Finnish (that would be Aleksis Kivi), Aho is sometimes spoken of as the father of modern literary Finnish and was the first professional Finnish-language author. The Railroad is considered one of his most important works.
From kirjasto.sci.fi:
“In 1884 appeared Aho’s first major work, Rautatie [Railroad], a humorous story of a country couple Matti and Liisa, who embark …
Read More: The Railroad / Rautatie
Tammi 2009, 279 pp
By Marko Hautala.
From the Tammi/Elina Ahlbäck Rights Guide:
A story about people’s need to preserve their loved ones, both dead and alive, but also the need to conceal their wrongdoing from the eyes of others.
On a mild May day, as Finland is celebrating its victory in the Ice Hockey World Championships, a violent crime takes place in the depths of a concrete suburb. The murderer turns out to be Olavi Finne, a lonely old man who can’t explain what happened. He’s locked up in a mental institution.
Over ten years later, thirty-year old …
Read More: Shrouds / Käärinliinat
I recently finished a sample translation for the Elina Ahlbäck Agency of Leena Lehtolainen‘s novel Tappava säde, the current working title of which is The Killing One.
Leena Lehtolainen is the bestselling female crime author in Finland. Her new titles head straight to #1 on the Finnish bestseller lists. In addition to her career as an author, she has also worked as a literary researcher, columnist, and critic. Lehtolainen published her first novel at the age of 12; this work of juvenile fiction Ja äkkiä onkin toukokuu (”And Suddenly It’s May”) appeared in 1976. Five years later …
Read More: The Killing One / Tappava säde
Otava, 2008
By Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen
From the Otava Rights Catalog:
An indispensable book for anyone who sleeps! This book has everything, from instructions for choosing a bedtime toy to a troubleshooting chart for insomniacs. As a bonus, the book includes the world’s most boring bedtime story. When goddaughter Satu is coming to spend the night at Tatu and Patu’s house, the boys go all out in preparation. Since they’ll have to put her to bed, they’ve composed a new treatise entitled On Dreams, Drowsiness, Bedtime, and Lovely Lullabies or O.D.D.B.A.L.L.
The book explains how to …
Read More: Oddball Bedtime Book / Tatun ja Patun Outo unikirja
My translation of extracts from the collection of short prose, Mielensäpahoittaja (‘Taking offense’, WSOY, 2010) by Tuomas Kyrö were just published at Books from Finland.
The extracts at Books from Finland
Read More: Taking Offense / Mielensäpahoittaja
Otava 2008, 191 pp.
From Petri Tamminen. Tamminen (b. 1966) is known in Finland as a master of short prose and laconic humor. His work has often consisted of page-length vignettes, and even when writing in longer formats, as in the short novel What Happiness Is, the focus remains on trenchant observations of individual phenomena. To summarize What Happiness Is very briefly: two friends set out to write a book about happiness. In the process, the protagonist manages to destroy much of what might have formed the basis for his own happiness.
As a reader, Tamminen’s work speaks to me. …
Read More: What Happiness Is / Mitä onni on
Like Publishing, 2009.
By Tuomas Lius.
From the publisher:
A weapon of mass destruction from the Second World War.
A lake in Northern Karelia.
A distinguished female undercover cop and a redneck heartthrob.
These are the ingredients of Haka, a startling first effort which is shooting to the top of the thriller charts. It is a supreme mix of eccentric characters and multiple sources of suspense that culminates in a race to find an abandoned German recognisance device at the bottom of a lake in Northern Karelia.
Tuomas Lius (born 1976) moves through the story with a …
Read More: Haka
Otava, 2006
By Juhani Seppänen.
From the Otava 2006 Foreign Rights Catalog:
This book could change your attitude to alcohol – for good. The author spins the bottle and questions many of the things we take for granted about the demon drink, shaking up some long-held misconceptions.
Out of a population of around five million, Finland boasts around 500,000 “heavy users” of alcohol. Liquor is an everyday thing for increasing numbers of people, not to mention its use on festive occasions. Does the idea of a party with just a glass of water for company …
Read More: Clearly Drunk / Selvästi juovuksissa
Teos 2007. 384 Pages
By Mikko Rimminen.
Rimminen’s second novel Pölkky (“The Block”) is a story about a park attendant in Helsinki whose inaction is narrated with extreme stylistic precision. Even the most insignificant move by the main character is shared with the reader. However, unlike Volter Kilpi’s tour de force Alastalon salissa (800 pages about a 6 hour span), or even Ulysses, you’re certain to finish The Block, rather than reading the CliffsNotes and then pretending you actually read the book. Rimminen’s second novel is breathtakingly funny and its language is pure genius.
From Teos.fi:…
Read More: The Block / Pölkky
Atena Kustannus OY. 2006. 119 pages.
Dual-language book about contemporary Finnish weaving and fiber art by Minna Koskinen, Anelma Savolainen, and Anna-Maria Väätäinen. I translated the Finnish portions into English. The pictures are stunning!
Read More: Muistiin punottua = Woven into Memory
Atena Publishing, 2009
By Paula Hahtola
In 1951 a mother and daughter travel to the country in search of acknowledgment of the mother’s paternity.
Read More: The Salpa Line / Salpalinja
Tammi Publishers. 2008. 219 pages.
Finnish edited by Nina Suomalainen and Jyrki Karvinen
English edited by Owen F. Witesman
Translation by Marju Galitsos, David Hackston, and Setti Mulari.
This book was put together from essays by diplomats and public officials who have worked closely with former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari in the Balkans. When I was approached about the project by Tammi, I was busy with school, so I suggested something that is rather rare in the literary translation world: subcontracting. I put together a team of translators I knew I could trust and farmed the chapters out to …
Read More: The Ahtisaari Legacy: Resolve and Negotiate
Bonnier Books Ltd. 2008. 184 pages.
A cookbook by Marianne Kiskola and Sanna Miettunen (2006).
It’s this food blogger’s favorite cookbook! One of the recipes being prepared at Kitchenbutteryfly.com.
Suomalainen.com bookstore listing
Read More: Hot! Hot! Hot! / Hot: chiliä ja muita mauste-elämyksiä
This is a little story I translated ages ago, mostly for fun. The original title is “Mahtisana” (‘The mighty word’) from the collection Lapsia. Another of those Finnish authors that the world is missing out on. Enjoy.
Teuvo Pakkala — Stignafulia — Mahtisana…
Read More: Children / Lapsia
Atena 2004.
Sport in Antiquity: From the fields of Olympia to the arenas of Rome
Antiikin urheilu: Olympian kentiltä Rooman areenoille
From Sami Koski, Mika Rissanen & Juha Tahvanainen. Winner of the most prestigious prize for nonfiction in Finland, the Tieto-Finlandia Award (2005).
This gave me a rare chance to use my undergraduate minor in Latin! This is a generously illustrated, general audience description of sporting in the ancient world, including detailed descriptions of individual events in addition to discussion of the cultural and religious significance of physical contests.
Sport in Antiquity Sample (PDF)…
Read More: Sport in Antiquity / Antiikin urheilu
Local news is a Finnish comic strip written by Vesa Ilmaranta and illustrated by Timo Kähkönen which has appeared in over 40 outlets. In addition to Finland, it has appeared in Norway and will soon be seen elsewhere. The basic storyline is that a young dot-com bubble victim named Miles Conway has moved back to his hometown to work in the local paper. He was burned out on the big city, but small-town life isn’t a piece of cake either.
See more strips at Localnews.fi.…
Read More: Local News / Paikallisuutiset
Atena, 2008
By Dr. Hannele Klemettilä
From the author’s introduction:
If you ask the average person on the street what historical period could most aptly be described by the word “cruel,” she will without hesitation answer “the Middle Ages,” as opposed to suggesting perhaps antiquity or the beginning of the modern era. Cruelty is generally perceived as one of the main features of the Middle Ages, alongside darkness, violence, backwardness, and barbarism. However, in many regards this is largely a question of myths, false impressions, and misunderstandings, which have been shaped and cultivated over the centuries both in the …
The only literary journal devoted to Finnish literature. I provided translations for every issue from late 2004 through the end of the journals print publication in 2008, approximately 50 essays and literature reviews in total, plus at least the short fiction translations listed below. I continue to contribute to their online publication.
“Misery me” [from Mielensäpahoittaja] by Tuomas Kyrö (2010).
“Noah’s progeny” [extracts from Puupää] by Juha Hurme (2009).
“What about me?” [from Mitä onni on] by Petri Tamminen. 42:3 (2008).
“No place to go” [from Lakanasiivet] by Sirpa Kähkönen. 42:1 (2008).
“Night Decorator” [“Yösisustaja…
Read More: Books from Finland
Tammi, 2009.
Footballs and Concert Halls: A Light Blue Love Story or Concert Halls and Soccer Balls: A Light Blue Love Story in US (Sello & Pallo) by Lauri Törhönen.
Winner of the 2010 Topelius Prize for youth fiction.
This is a very sweet (but not saccharine), engaging love story with some of the same elements of anticipation that readers enjoy so much in the Twilight series. The main characters are thrown together, but then separated, with no real way of finding each other again.
Lauri Törhönen — Footballs and Concert Halls — Sample Translation (PDF)
From …
Read More: Footballs and Concert Halls / Sello & Pallo
Atena Publishing 2004. 389 pages.
Written by Tero Niemi and Anne Salminen
Classic sci-fi with lyrical, wistful feel reminiscent of Bradbury mixed with the hard science edge familiar from Arthur C. Clark and Kim Stanley Robinson (space is big, and no, lasers don’t make any sound). This episodic novel follows the travels and travails of Nimbus, a young female star traveler and her AI companion, Talamus. Nimbus herself departs her body, both to be reconstituted in new bodies grown by Talamus and populated with recordings of her memories and in more mystical ways as well. Dominant themes include the nature …
Read More: Nimbus / Nimbus ja tähdet
Otava Publishing. 2007. 48 pages. In 5th printing.
This is a children’s book written and illustrated by Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen (2007). It was awarded the 2007 Finlandia Prize for Children’s Literature. The artwork is pure genius–it captures contemporary Finnishness like few things I’ve seen. Even visiting Finland probably won’t give you nearly as intimate a look into what is important to Finns both in terms of where they’ve come from historically and what modern life is about. And it’s hilarious.
Sample pages:
Finnish oddities, Part 1: Sauna
Finnish oddities, Part 2: Rye bread
Tatu as Santa Claus
Read More: This is Finland / Tatun ja Patun Suomi
Written by Riitta Jalonen and illustrated by Kristiina Louhi.
From Tammi foreign rights brochure:
A memory never ends
The Girl and the Jackdaw Tree describes a turning point in a little girl’s life, the unavoidable changes caused by her father’s death. Her thoughts and feelings relate a sensitive story – with the child pondering the happenings of her life under a tall tree. The tree is known as a Jackdaw tree as a flock of these big birds frequently nest in the safety of its branches. The girl knows how the tree must feel when the …
Read More: The Girl and the Jackdaw Tree / Tyttö ja naakkapuu
Tammi, 2009.
YA fantasy from Sari Peltoniemi. Sample translation with rough translation help from John C. Alleman.
A short blurb at Finnishwriters.com…
Read More: The Servant of Dusk / Hämärän renki
Tammi, 2008
Nominated for the Finlandia Junior Prize!
Written by Tove Appelgren and illustrated by Salla Savolainen
From Ahlbäck Agency foreign rights guide:
Vesta-Linnea feels like her mother always takes her little sister’s side over hers, and she is suddenly very certain that no one in the family really loves her. Will anything disperse her darkest thoughts?
Tove Appelgren & Salla Savolainen — Vesta-Linnea’s Darkest Thought — Sample Translation (PDF)
(A full-length translation with images is available upon request)
Read More: Vesta-Linnea’s Darkest Thought / Vesta-Linnea mieli mustana
| Short story by science fiction author J. Pekka Mäkelä. Originally published in Tähtivaeltaja 1/2009.
J. Pekka Mäkelä at FinnishWriters.com Karsta listed in Locus Magazine review of international science fiction 2009 J. Pekka Mäkelä has four smashing science fiction novels ready to be translated! Info |
Read More: Thirty More Years / Kolmekymmentä vuotta
Tammi, 2009
Written by Tuula Korolainen. Illustrated by Christel Rönns.
From Tammi/Elina Ahlbäck Agency foreign rights guide:
Kitten’s mum is upset feeling she has to clean up after everyone else in the
family. And as if that wasn’t enough. Sloppy jumps out of the mirror – a little,
sloppy cat who looks just like Kitten. And boy, can Sloppy make a mess! He storms
from room to room putting everything in disarray, even pasting the walls with jam.
Kitten gets carried away with the mess-making, fi nding how much fun it can be.
But when Sloppy transforms the …
Tammi, 2010.
Written and Illustrated by Virpi Penna.
Virpi Pena — Butterfly Path — Sample Translation
Buttery Fly Path Images Sample…
Read More: Butterfly Path / Perhosten polku
Otava, 2006.
Finnish author Olli Jalonen’s doctoral dissertation on the creative process and association. I translated the English summary, which was also published in revised form in Books from Finland (3/06).
Read More: Swift Moments Slowly Woven / Hitaasti kudotut nopeat hetket
Annexus Oy 2010
Written and illustrated by Marsa Pihlaja.
Translated by Owen F. Witesman
Environment-themed poems with eye-popping illustrations.
Sample from Annexus Publishing…
Read More: The Animals’ World / Eläinten maa
Forthcoming. Annexus Oy.
This is a book of mother-themed children’s poetry. More info when it goes to press!…
Read More: Mother / Äiti
Tammi, 2010.
By Hannu Hirvonen.
From the Tammi/Elina Ahlbäck Agency 2010 Rights Guide
The cat raised its head and rubbed its cheek against Mii’s hand.
‘We can get out of here with the help of a cat. Maybe.’
‘How so?’ the boy asked.
‘I don’t know. But it may be the only way. Only a cat can walk on both sides.’
In the beginning everything seems like an exciting dream to Mii. She sees a beautiful little city rising out of nothing. She sets off to look at the investigate. There are people standing around in every alley and …
Read More: Moths of Hades / Tuonenkehrääjät
Tammi Publishers. 2008. 72 pages.
Collaborative translation with Lola Rogers. I handled the final translation and editing.
The original is a graphic novel based on the novel of the same name by Risto Isomäki (2005).
Review at forbiddenplanet, with images.
Another review.
Suomalainen.com bookstore listing
Also by this author:
The Sands of Sarasvati (novel version)
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Read More: The Sands of Sarasvati / Sarasvatin hiekkaa
Atena, 2004.
By Hannele Klemettilä
From Dr. Klemettilä’s homepage:
Hannele Klemettilä published her first monograph The Executioner in Late Medieval French Culture in 2003 (Annales Universitatis Turkuensis). Klemettilä is familiar to larger audiences not only from her popular books but also from radio and television programmes. She has published historical texts both in Finland and abroad. Klemettilä’s publications include scientific studies, monographs, articles, columns, and two radio series. Her historical books have received a lots of space in media, critics’ praises, and a large audience.
Hannele Klemettilä — Medieval Executioners — Sample (PDF)
Wikipedia article on Dr. Klemettilä…
Read More: Medieval Executioners / Keskiajan pyövelit
Aspasia Books. 2008. 109 pages.
This is a themed set of short stories by Petri Tamminen (Otava 2002). The starting point is the impulse toward seclusion–the original title is literally “land of the hider”.
Article by Soila Lehtonen in Transcript.
Some of the pieces from the book were also previously translated by my colleague David Hackston and can be read in the Books from Finland archive here.…
Read More: Hiding Places / Piiloutujan maa
Dalkey Archive Press. 2006. 133 pages.
A novel by Anita Konkka (1988). This was a retranslation of a rough translation done by Agatha Haun.
From Publishers Weekly:
The querulous, nameless, love-weary narrator of Konkka’s 1988 novel might have emerged from a Jim Jarmusch film: in her late 30s, recently unemployed, her engagement broken off and in love with an unavailable man, the narrator is a cerebral, dreamy observer of the flotsam of life as she sits at the base of her favorite pine tree writing in a blue notebook. She imagines the lives of people she sees, diligently records …
Read More: A Fool’s Paradise / Hullun taivaassa
Tammi, 2010.
Written by Riitta Jalonen and illustrated by Kristiina Louhi.
From the Tammi/Elina Ahlbäck Agency foreign rights guide:
Aidan and Sophie are 8- and 9-year-old friends. This book
is a sweet story of summer, closeness, games, adventures
– and of first love, from a boy’s perspective.
Through small, delicate details Riitta Jalonen communicates
the strong emotions of childhood. Kristiina Louhi’s warm and
inventive illustrations bring the magical realm of childhood
handy.
Riitta Jalonen — Aidan and Sophie — Translation Sample PDF…
Read More: Aidan and Sophie / Aatos ja Sofia
Tammi, 2009.
The Hurricane Detective Club and the Guardians of the Star Triangle (Etsiväkerho Hurrikaani ja tähtikolmion vartijat) by Jari Mäkipää.
The Hurricane Detective Club returns to school after a hectic summer vacation. The fall begins strangely when Principal McBride doesn’t show up for work. The club sets out to investigate the principal’s strange disappearance. The think it must have something to do with a strange symbol, the star triangle, a mystery the sleuths have tried to solve before.
As they investigate the star triangle, Jesse, Jenny, Caroline, and Matthias descend deeper into the dark secrets of …
Read More: The Hurricane Detective Club // Etsiväkerho Hurrikaani
Tammi, 2006.
Elämänkirja by Esko-Pekka Tiitinen.
From the Elina Ahlbäck Agency/Tammi Publishing foreign rights guide:
The Book of Life is a refined, yet intense novel about Marja, a 17-year-old girl,
and the summer during which she has to let go of her old home and way of life.
Esko-Pekka Tiitinen — The Book of Life — Translation Sample (PDF)
I was seventeen then.
When I called out from the edge of the field, the cows stood up from resting and followed after me. I could have walked with them even as far as the village; I could have …
Read More: The Book of Life / Elämänkirja
Visa Infinite. 3 (2005): 72-73.
Based on an unpublished original short work by Petri Tamminen. This was an amusing project since both Petri and I are quite sure we will never be the sort of people who qualify for this credit card or afford anything advertised in the magazine.
Read More: Dictionary of Happiness
Kapsäkki Opera and Theatre Company.
A tintamaresque children’s opera by Sinikka and Tiina Nopola featuring their Heinähattu and Vilttitossu characters. I translated the songs lyrics for performance in the US.…
Read More: Hayhat, Feltslipper and the Big Bang / Heinähattu, Vilttitossu ja suuri pamaus
Journal of Finnish Studies 7:1 (Aug 2003).
A short story by Hannu Raittila, from the collection Miesvahvuus (1999).
PDF…
Read More: The Altar Stone / Uhrikivi
Brigham Young University Theses (2001).
A play by Minna Canth (1891). This was done as my undergraduate senior project. My first lengthy translation project.
You may access my full translation of the play using the following link just so long as you realize this was my first translation ever! (Also, it was originally done in Word Perfect, so there are some very, very slight oddities in the file as a result of bringing it into the modern world, as it were).
The Parson’s Family by Minna Canth (Papin perhe — 2001 Translation) (PDF)…
Read More: The Parson’s Family / Papin perhe
Mox Mäkelä/Finnish Public Radio (YLE).
Näkymättömiä kuvia olemattomista asioista, a radio play by Mox Mäkelä (2004).…
Read More: Invisible Pictures of Non-existent Objects
The sample translations posted on this website all represent books for which the authors are seeking foreign publication, unless otherwise noted. All material is copyrighted by the respective authors, illustrators, and translators. Nothing here may be published without permission and it should not be assumed that the sample translation represents the final form in which a translation would be published. Please contact me or the listed foreign rights representative for more information.
Enjoy!…
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Yet another old Books from Finland translation of a Jyrki Lehtola column.
How does it sound, the people’s voice? Loud and sometimes clear perhaps, but, as columnist Jyrki Lehtola finds, more often than not shrill and puerile.
Link…
Read More: Vox Bloody Populi
Last of my old Jyrki Lehtola translations for Books from Finland:
When the Finnish media developed a crush on the country’s foreign minister, writes Jyrki Lehtola, no one could foresee the consequences. Especially if the object of their affections might begin to believe what they say about him…
Link
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Read More: Pleased to See Me?
Otava, 2009
From the Otava Foreign Rights website:
The alphabet is led down memory lane with the boys from Oddsville, where there’s plenty of whacky humour and earth-shaking revelations about the crazy life they’ve lived! With an extra bonus letter: the mark of Oddsville!
Tatu and Patu find a box in the attic brimming with old photos and mementoes of years gone by.
The box is a true cornucopia: there are pictures of their trip to Barbados, a shot of the curling club disco, and one of the Christmas market in Järvenpää. They’ve even made their way into pictures
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Read More: Tatu and Patu’s Amazing Alphabet // Tatun ja Patun Oudot aakkoset
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