Topelius Prize for Salla Simukka!

Posted on 14.01.201311.08.2016

Salla Simukka has been awarded with the Topelius Prize for her novels Without a Trace (Jäljellä, Tammi 2012) and Elsewhere (Toisaalla, Tammi 2012) in Helsinki today. Established in 1946, the Topelius Prize is Finland’s oldest prize in recognition of the best Finnish book for children and young people. These days, the prize is awarded for the best youth novel.

Jury’s motivations:

Salla Simukka’s novels form an integrated whole. Both works resonate with important themes regarding individuals – such as daring to be yourself – as well as society, including the pressure to succeed, power and freedom of choice. The books also take a stance on the values of the contemporary world. For too many young people, the virtual world becomes all too real. Salla Simukka portrays family relationships in a realistic, non-sensationalised way, without any great entanglements. This allows the book’s main storyline to remain strong.

Please ask the Agency for reading materials in English.

About author

Salla Simukka

Salla Simukka is the author of the international success story The Snow White Trilogy: rights are sold in 52 territories and in Hollywood. She has written several novels for young readers and her accolades include the Topelius Prize 2013 and the Finland Prize 2013. Simukka has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award every year 2021–2024. Where It All Begins, published in 2022, is her first novel for adults and in 2024 she started a collaboration with JP Ahonen on a middle grade novel.

Previously Simukka has written book reviews for the newspapers, translated all kinds of texts into Finnish, worked as an editor at a literary magazine and as a screenwriter for a popular TV show for young audiences. She has also been working on the programme of Turku Book Fair in 2017–2020.

Bibliography

2024, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

The Secret Staircase

Salla Simukka

2022, Literary Fiction

Where It All Begins

Salla Simukka

2021, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

In the Dark I Can Be Yours

Salla Simukka

2020, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Detained

Salla Simukka

2018, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Turn off the Lights! Turn on the Lights!

Salla Simukka

2016, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Sisterland

Salla Simukka

2014, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

As Black as Ebony

Salla Simukka

2013, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

As Red as Blood

Salla Simukka

2013, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

As White as Snow

Salla Simukka

2012, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Elsewhere

Salla Simukka

2012, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Without a Trace

Salla Simukka

Rights to Kari Nars’ Swindling Billions sold in Hungary to HVG Publishers – Money and Happiness in Brasil to Editora Gutenberg

Posted on 09.01.201311.08.2016

We are thrilled to announce that the Hungarian rights to Kari Nars’ international bestseller Swindling Billions have been acquired by HVG Publishers. Over 75,000 copies sold – English massmarket paperback to be published in January 2013!

Rights list:

WORLD ENGLISH / Marshall Cavendish
BRAZIL / WORLD PORTUGUESE / Editora Gutenberg Ltda.
CHINA (Simplified) / Law Press China
FINLAND, Tammi
HUNGARY /HVG Publishers
GERMANY / Wiley-VCH
KOREA / Hanbit Biz
ROMANIA / Hardcover & Paperback

“The book has credentials to entertain. This seems to have been Nars’s intention… – It [the book] is an ABC on how to be smart when someone offers an easy way to get rich.”
– Valor Econômico

Dr. Kari Nars’ distinguished career in world finance includes senior banking positions in Washington D.C., London, Paris and Helsinki. He and his wife spend their time in Helsinki and Provence.

Rights to Kari Nars’ Money and Happiness has been sold in Brasil to Editora Gutenberg. Previously rights are sold in Finland to Tammi and to Schildts (Finland-Swedish).

Is money the key to our happiness? Why, in the current climate of wealth and prosperity, do more and more people fall prey to stress, burnout, depression, alcoholism, divorce, or even suicide? Why do millions of children, young people and families feel increasingly bad by the day?

Please ask the Agency for full English text of Swindling Billions and other reading materials in English.

About author

Kari Nars

Dr. Kari Nars has a long and distinguished career in various high banking positions in London, Washington and Paris, and as a director of Finland’s central bank and Ministry of Finance. He has published several books, and was chief editor and main writer of Excellence in Debt Management by Euromoney Books in London.

2009, General Nonfiction

Swindling Billions

Kari Nars

2006, General Nonfiction

Money and Happiness

Kari Nars

Piemme in Italy and Dogan Egmont in Turkey have acquired rights to Emmi Itäranta’s novel Memory of Water!

Posted on 08.01.201311.08.2016

We are excited to announce that the Italian and Turkish rights to Emmi Itäranta’s debut novel Memory of Water (Teemestarin kirja, Teos 2012) have been sold. The Italian rights were acquired by Edizioni Piemme while Dogan Egmont bought the Turkish rights, both for publication in 2014.

These two deals continue Emmi Itäranta’s wonderful success story, including already three other major deals and the 2012 Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for young authors, worth 16.000 euros.

Emmi Itäranta’s debut novel has now been sold to five languages including World English (HarperVoyager), Czech (Plus Publishers), German (Reihe Hanser), Italian (Edizioni Piemme) and Turkish (Dogan Egmont).

Please ask the Agency for full English text written by Emmi Itäranta.

About author

Emmi Itäranta

Emmi Itäranta (b.1976) holds two MA degrees, one in Drama and another in Creative Writing. Her award-winning debut novel Memory of Water (Teemestarin kirja) was published in Finland in 2012 to great accolades, followed by The Weaver (Kudottujen kujien kaupunki) in 2015. Her latest novel The Moonday Letters (Kuunpäivän kirjeet) was published in September 2020.

Itäranta’s writing has been compared to that of Ursula K. Le Guin. Her honours include the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize 2013, the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize 2012 and first place in the Teos Fantasy and Sci-Fi Literary Contest 2011.

Memory of Water has sold to over 25 languages to date, and it has also been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award recognizing the best science fiction novel published in the UK in 2014, and the Golden Tentacle award. In addition, Itäranta has been included on the Honor List of the Otherwise Award (formerly James Tiptree, Jr. Award).

Itäranta’s CV is an eclectic mix of writing-related activities, including stints as a columnist, theatre critic, press officer and dramaturge. Her poems, short stories, articles and essays have appeared in anthologies, film magazines and science fiction magazines in the UK and Finland. She now lives in Finland after 14 years in the United Kingdom.

Bibliography

2020, Fantasy & Science Fiction