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“I think that as a species we have a built-in capacity for self-destructive behaviour, but also a built-in capacity to improve things, to make a change,” says Emmi Itäranta.
Arts & cultureLiterature

Finnish author writes memories of the future

With elements of sci-fi and mystery, Emmi Itäranta’s book Memory of Water takes place in the future but comments on the present.
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Alternative bear cult Kalevala, Finland
Arts & cultureLiterature

Alternative Kalevala in the making

The Finnish national epic Kalevala leans on Christianity – how about another Kalevala based on bear cults and shamanism?
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Life & societyCuisine

A Finnish poet and his pastry

Runeberg Day is February 5: Can our New York reporter re-create Runeberg cakes and convey their significance to the Americans?
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Finnish literature, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, Finland Guest of Honour, Riikka Pulkkinen, True, The Limit
Arts & cultureLiterature

Finnish author explores limits and truth

We meet Riikka Pulkkinen, whose novels earn her a place in the upper ranks of young Finnish authors.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, Finland Guest of Honour, Salla Simukka, Snow White, Lumikki, As Red as Blood, As White as Snow, As Black as Ebony, Finnish literature, Tampere
Arts & cultureLiterature

Finnish writer’s youth fiction wins fans

Young Finnish author Salla Simukka is winning over youth-fiction fans worldwide with her Snow White trilogy.
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Finnish literature, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 Guest of Honour, Finland Cool, Finnish Weird, Sofi Oksanen, Katja Tukiainen, Johanna Holmström, Katja Kettu, Johanna Sinisalo, comics, graphic novels, Tove Jansson, Ilkka Remes
Arts & cultureLiterature

Finnish literature surges to the front

Finland’s cool, unique, multifaceted literature becomes the focus of the world’s biggest book fair in Frankfurt.
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Learning Finnish as a second language, textbooks, non-Finns, immigrants, Suomea suomeksi, Suomen mestari, Finnish for Foreigners, Eila ja Ossi, grammar, Finland, grammar, Finland
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How the heck do you learn Finnish? part 1

Learning Finnish is far from impossible! We ask people what books and strategies they are using to master the language.
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Finnish Beginnings, memoir, Rauni Ollikainen, Second World War, Winter War, Continuation War, Lapland War, Helsinki, post-war Finland, Finnish Canadian, immigrant experience, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Arts & cultureLiterature

A life that began in Finland

The exciting, moving memoir of a Finnish Canadian forms a great story that goes from post-war Helsinki to western Canada.
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