October 2015

Italian rights to The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff sold to Atmosphere Libri!

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MaresiNewsletterOct272015We are very happy to announce that Atmosphere Libri, an independent publisher of both Italian and quality translated fiction, has acquired Italian rights to Maresi (Schildts & Söderströms 2014) as well as two upcoming titles in The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff. Rights to Maresi are now sold in 11 territories!

“Maresi deals with the compelling theme of human identity and ego; of finding yourself and your own purpose. This is an exciting topic for any young reader.”
– Mauro Di Leo, publisher, Atmosphere Libri

In addition to being awarded the 2014 Finlandia Junior Prize, the highest accolade given to a Finnish children’s or YA book, Maresi was nominated for the 2015 Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize.

Naondel, the prequel to Maresi and Part II in The Red Abbey Chronicles, will arrive in Finnish bookstores next year. The UK edition of Maresi will be published by Pushkin Press in January of 2016.

Praise from international publishers:

“I was blown away by Maresi, quite simply. Maria Turtschaninoff has written an incredibly original, vivid and gripping story with appeal not only for YA readers but far beyond…I’ve no doubt that Maresi and The Red Abbey Chronicles as a whole will become classics of the genre.”
– Adam Freudenheim, Publisher and Managing Director, Pushkin Press/Pushkin Children’s Books

“Maresi is a powerful, intelligent and utterly thrilling adventure story with a strong and timely feminist message. Set in a beautifully drawn fantasy world, this story is as compelling as it is challenging, and I devoured it in one sitting.”
– Daniel Seton, Commissioning Editor, Pushkin Press/Pushkin Children’s Books

”Maresi takes the reader into a world full of wonder. And, most importantly, it tells us about the magical power of friendship. A truly enchanting story.“
– Stefanie Brösigke, Junior Editor, Heyne Verlag, Germany

About The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff:

Maresi, Book I: The Red Abbey is a refuge for women and girls where everyone pursues their own areas of interest. Maresi prefers to spend her time reading and learning. Everything changes when the frightened Jai arrives on the island. She has seen her sister get buried alive for speaking to a young man, and her father and a crew of thugs are after her. Maresi and her friends have to fight to defend both Jai and their community.

A prequel to Maresi, Book II, Naondel (Schildts & Söderströms) will tell the story of the First Sisters, and how they came to flee a harem in the faraway Eastern Lands and eventually establish the Red Abbey.

A sequel to Maresi, Book III (Schildts & Söderströms) will follow Maresi after she leaves the Red Abbey and sets out to establish a school in the oppressed province of Rovas.

RIGHTS SOLD: MARESI
Original publisher: FINLAND, Schildts & Söderströms
BELGIUM, Clavis
CANADA (French), Editions de la Bagnole/Groupe Livres Quebecor Media
DENMARK, Turbine
FINLAND, Tammi
GERMANY, Random House/Heyne
ITALY, Atmosphere Libri
NETHERLANDS, Clavis
ROMANIA, Editura Univers
SWEDEN, Berghs
TURKEY, Altin Kitaplar
WORLD ENGLISH, Pushkin Press

Reading materials: The Red Abbey Chronicles
Book I, Maresi:
Full English text
Swedish edition
Finnish edition
Book II, Naondel:
English synopsis

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About author


Maria Turtschaninoff

Maria Turtschaninoff is known for crafting lyrical, historically inspired fantasy stories starring strong female protagonists. In addition to J.R.R. Tolkien, she counts Philip Pullman, Ursula K. Le Guin and C.S. Lewis among her favorite authors. She is a two-time winner of the Society of Swedish Literature Prize, winner of the Swedish YLE Literature Prize, winner of the Thank You for the Book Award, a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2020-2024), and winner of the 2014 Finlandia Junior Prize.

Her Red Abbey Chronicles YA trilogy has been sold into 30 languages, while her first adult novel Inherited Land has been sold to 23 territories. Maria has a Master of Arts in human ecology and works full-time as a writer.

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Bibliography


2024, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

The Manticore

Maria Turtschaninoff


2022, Literary Fiction

Inherited Land

Maria Turtschaninoff


2018, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Maresi: Red Mantle

Maria Turtschaninoff


2016, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Naondel

Maria Turtschaninoff


2014, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Maresi

Maria Turtschaninoff

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Starred review for The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo!

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SinisaloAug2015U.S. publication nears for The Core of the Sun (Teos 2013), Johanna Sinisalo’s novel set in a dystopian version of Finland in which pleasure is forbidden and sex is commoditized. Published by Grove Atlantic in January of 2016, The Core of the Sun has already received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews!

“The novel creates an impressively detailed and extremely frightening world…Written with wit and grace – Sinisalo describes depression as ‘a smooth-walled cavity, an open, echoing cave with a darkness living in it deeper than the space between the stars’ – the novel maintains an impressive grasp on plot and suspense, easily luring the reader into taking its characters, politics, and striking story to heart.”
– Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Last week Sinisalo met with readers in Seattle, Washington, where she was interviewed by translator Lola Rogers at the Elliott Bay Book Company on Saturday, October 24th.

See here for an article by Rogers in The Seattle Review of Books, in which she discusses Sinisalo’s career and contributions to world literature.

“[Sinisalo] coined the term Finnish Weird (Suomikumma) to describe her work and that of several other Finnish writers of the past two or three decades… The distinguishing feature of Finnish Weird for me, though, is the way it inserts the unexpected, uncanny, or otherworldly into otherwise familiar fictional worlds, often using this juxtaposition of reality and fantasy to explore deep, sometimes heady themes,” Rogers writes.

Recently Sinisalo was also interviewed for Strange Horizons, a publication focusing on speculative fiction, about the blurred lines between the realistic and the fantastical, her involvement in the translation process, and much more. Read the interview here.

Sinisalo’s previous novel The Blood of Angels (Teos 2011), published in the U.S and UK by Peter Owen in 2014, received starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist. Her upcoming novel, Iron Sky: Renate’s Story (working title) is inspired by the 2012 cult film Iron Sky, at which Sinisalo worked as one of the concept developers. Rights have been acquired in Germany by Klett-Cotta and in Finland by Johnny Kniga.

RIGHTS SOLD: IRON SKY: RENATE’S STORY
FINLAND, Johnny Kniga
GERMANY, Klett-Cotta

RIGHTS SOLD: THE CORE OF THE SUN
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
CZECH REPUBLIC, Euromedia
FRANCE, Actes Sud
GERMANY, Klett-Cotta
WORLD ENGLISH, Grove Atlantic

RIGHTS SOLD: THE BLOOD OF ANGELS
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
WORLD ENGLISH, Peter Owen
FRANCE, Actes Sud
POLAND, Foksal

RIGHTS SOLD: BIRDBRAIN
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
FRANCE, Actes Sud
NORWAY, Vega
UK, Peter Owen

RIGHTS SOLD: NOT BEFORE SUNDOWN (TROLL – A LOVE STORY)
Original publisher: FINLAND, Tammi
ALBANIA, Dituria
BRAZIL, Devir
BULGARIA, Perseus
CZECH REPUBLIC, One Woman Press
FRANCE, Actes Sud
GERMANY, Tropen
JAPAN, Sunmark
LATVIA, Atena
LITHUANIA, Vaga
POLAND, Terytoria
RUSSIA, Amphora
SLOVENIA, Modrijan
SPAIN, Poliedro
SWEDEN, Wahlstrom & Widstrand
UK, Peter Owen
U.S, Grove Atlantic

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About author


Johanna Sinisalo

Johanna Sinisalo (b. 1958) is a Finlandia Prize-winning superstar of Finnish speculative fiction. In addition to her nine novels, she has also written short fiction and film and television screenplays. Her works have been translated into twenty languages.

Sinisalo has won several literary prizes also abroad, such as the 2004 James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 2017 Prometheus Award, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2008, the Prix Escapades in 2012, and the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire in 2017. In 2022, Johanna Sinisalo was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal for services to Finnish literature.

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Bibliography


2021, Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Storm Flute

Johanna Sinisalo


2020, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Strangers Inside

Johanna Sinisalo


2018, Fantasy & Science Fiction

IRON SKY: RENATE'S STORY

Johanna Sinisalo


2013, Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Core of The Sun

Johanna Sinisalo


2011, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Blood of Angels

Johanna Sinisalo


2010, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

The Möbius Twist

Johanna Sinisalo


2008, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Birdbrain

Johanna Sinisalo


2000, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Troll

Johanna Sinisalo

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Laura Lindstedt’s Oneiron wins the Toisinkoinen literature prize!

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LindstedtOct23We are proud to announce that Oneiron (Teos 2015), author Laura Lindstedt’s celebrated novel about seven women who meet in a white, undefined space after death, has received the Toisinkoinen literature prize.

Awarded by students of Finnish literature at the University of Helsinki, Toisinkoinen is given annually to an author’s outstanding second book.

From the jury:

“This novel made an impression, starting from its dazzling opening. It manages to achieve, without fumbling, narrative goals that embrace the impossible. How should one write a story in which time doesn’t exist? How can seven women from different countries, without a shared language, manage to express themselves, understand one another and comprehend the fuzziness of existence in the intermediate state of death? And how can the reader be kept engaged from the first to the last page? The jury was glad to see how Oneiron seems to rise effortlessly to the best of international literature.”

Contact the Agency for an English sample of Oneiron!

Praise for Oneiron:

”Oneiron is like a stream that spills and spins towards something – death, at least. Before that happens, we live. Every life and death is unique. Stunning.”
– Tuijata culture blog, Finland

“Lindstedt’s debut Scissors was a 2007 Finlandia Prize nominee, and it would be a surprise if Oneiron doesn’t receive the same honor, in the very least. On an international scale this is an exceptionally bright pearl of high literature – a novel that is close to perfect.”
– Aamulehti newspaper, Finland

”Lindstedt’s prose offers many things that can’t be conceptualized…they can simply be felt. Lindstedt doesn’t shy away from her ambition, and writes deep, high literature that is becoming more and more rare…Oneiron is likely to earn its place among the international best of Finnish literature.”
– Kannesta canteen, sivuista sivuille (“Cover to Cover, Page to Page”) literature blog, Finland

“I’ve never read anything like Oneiron. In the best possible way.”
– Lukutoukan kulttuuriblogi (“Bookworm’s Literature Blog”), Finland

About Oneiron:

Performance artist Shlomith from New York, chief accountant Polina from Moscow, heart transplant patient Rosa Imaculada from Brazil, upper-crust Nina of Marseilles who is expecting twins, cancer patient Wlbgis from the Netherlands, aspiring model Maimuna from Senegal and Austrian teenager Ulrike have all ended up in an empty, blank space. Time, as we understand it, has ceased to exist, and all bodily sensations seem to have disappeared.

Lindstedt plays with genres from essay to poetry, transitioning from humor to rage – while asking her reader to contemplate the question of death’s inevitability.

RIGHTS SOLD: ONEIRON
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos

RIGHTS SOLD: SCISSORS
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
DENMARK, Turbine

Prizes
Nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize 2007
Nominated for the Finlandia Prize 2007

Reading material: Oneiron
English sample
English synopsis
Finnish edition

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About author


Laura Lindstedt

Laura Lindstedt (b. 1976) became a critical darling with her adoption-themed debut novel Scissors (Sakset, Teos 2007), which earned her a nomination for the Finlandia Prize, the country’s most prestigious literary honour. Lindstedt’s second novel Oneiron (Teos 2015), a work of speculative fiction that takes place in the mysterious moments that follow one’s death, earned her the coveted Finlandia Prize of 2015 and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2017. Lindstedt’s success has continued with My Friend Natalia (Teos 2019) which has earned critical acclaim and has been sold to 12 territories. Together with author Sinikka Vuola, she has authored 101 tapaa tappaa aviomies (101 Ways to Kill Your Husband, Siltala 2022) which has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize of 2024.

She is currently completing her Ph.D. thesis on French author Nathalie Sarraute.

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Bibliography


2019, Literary Fiction

My Friend Natalia

Laura Lindstedt


2015, Literary Fiction

Oneiron

Laura Lindstedt


2007, Literary Fiction

Scissors

Laura Lindstedt

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Readers love The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta!

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ItarantaNewsletterOct22The City of Woven Streets (Kudottujen kujien kaupunki, Teos 2015), Emmi Itäranta’s anticipated second novel, arrived in Finnish bookstores earlier this month. Literary bloggers are praising Itäranta’s story of an island community in which dreaming is forbidden and a mysterious disease is spreading.

The City of Woven Streets will publish next year in the UK and U.S. by HarperCollins as The Weaver.

Praise for The City of Woven Streets:

“The City of Woven Streets fulfills the expectations set by Memory of Water. It takes its reader to the core of humanity and to the drowning and building of a world. It also shows what a person can give another: dreams and love.”
– Lumiomena (“Snow Apple”) literature blog, Finland

“Emmi Itäranta has the ability to create worlds in an undefined time…she has a bright future as a storyteller of fantasy; she has original ideas, a beautiful mastery of language and an ability to set the mood.”
– Tuijata culture blog, Finland

“This is an example of a book really hitting its target. The City of Woven Streets traps a reader in its web right away, and doesn’t let go until days after one has finished. Rich, polished, complete, whole.”
– Eniten minua kiinnostaa tie (“I am Most Interested in the Road”) blog, Finland

Itäranta’s debut Memory of Water (Teos 2012), published by HarperCollins in 2014, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the Golden Tentacle award, a category of the Kitschies fantasy and speculative fiction awards. It was also praised by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Guardian and The Washington Post, and was included on the Honor List of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Rights are sold in 19 territories, and film rights have been optioned.

About The City of Woven Streets:

In the City of Woven Streets, human life has little value. You practice a craft to survive, or you are an outcast, unwanted and tainted. Weaver Eliana is hiding a shameful birth defect – the ability to have dreams – that would, if exposed, land her in the House of the Tainted. After meeting a woman with her tongue cut off and Eliana’s name tattooed on her skin, Eliana discovers an invisible network of power behind the city’s facade. All the while an unknown disease is spreading, and the streets are slowly drowning.

RIGHTS SOLD: MEMORY OF WATER
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
WORLD ENGLISH, HarperCollins (2-book deal)
ARABIC, Dar Al Muna
BRAZIL, Record (2-book-deal)
BULGARIA, Perseus
CZECH, Albatros Media/Plus
DENMARK, Turbine
ESTONIA, Koolibri
FRANCE, Place des Editeurs (2-book deal)
GEORGIA, Palitra L Publishing
GERMANY, DTV/Reihe Hanser
HUNGARY, Metropolis Media (2-book deal)
ITALY, Sperling & Kupfer
JAPAN, Nishimura Shoten (2-book deal)
KOREA, The Book in My Life
NORWAY, Gresvik Forlag
RUSSIA, Text Publishers
SPAIN, Ediciones B.
TURKEY, Dogan Egmont

RIGHTS SOLD: THE CITY OF WOVEN STREETS
WORLD ENGLISH: HarperCollins
BRAZIL: Record
FRANCE, Place des Editeurs
HUNGARY: Metropolis Media
JAPAN: Nishimura Shoten

Reading material:
The City of Woven Streets
Finnish edition
English edition (not final)
English synopsis
Memory of Water
English edition
French edition
German edition
Spanish edition

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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.

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Bibliography


2020, Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Moonday Letters

Emmi Itäranta


2015, Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Weaver

Emmi Itäranta


2012, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Memory of Water

Emmi Itäranta

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DTV acquires German rights to Pauliina Susi’s cyberthriller In the Rear Window!

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Susi Aug2015We are thrilled to announce that DTV, publisher of successful Nordic authors including Henning Mankell, Jussi Adler-Olsson and Marko Hautala, has acquired German rights to In the Rear Window (Tammi 2015), Pauliina Susi’s critically acclaimed thriller rooted in the online age. DTV is also home to classics by the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London.

“Pauliina Susi’s In the Rear Window is an incredibly suspenseful novel that you can’t put down once you have started reading. Not only is it very cleverly constructed, but it also has plausible characters and addresses important issues of our time, including cybercrime, xenophobia and populism – all woven together to form an ingenious thriller.”
– Editors Elisabeth Kurath, Dora Höppner and Bianca Dombrowa, DTV, Germany

A mix of Gillian Flynn’s sharpness, Alfred Hitchcock’s sense of tension and Stieg Larsson’s knack for compelling characters, In the Rear Window follows a politician caught in a sex scandal, a vicious and conflicted hacker, and a single mother leading a project to provide support for men frequenting prostitutes.

Praise from critics:

“The Finnish equivalent to the bestsellers of Gillian Flynn and Camilla Läckberg.”
– Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, Finland

“In the Rear Window is an extremely entertaining and timely novel carried by quick plot twists and a haunting sense of suspense that builds towards the end.”
– Parnasso literary magazine, Finland

“In addition to generating suspense, Pauliina Susi has the ability to construct a hilariously recognizable portrait of our time that feels tragicomic in its familiarity.”
– Oma aika magazine, Finland

“What begins as light suspense darkens with each chapter as online dangers become life-threatening…this isn’t just a novel about technology, but about power and its side effects.”
– Keskisuomalainen newspaper, Finland

”In the Rear Window is a book to devour.”
– Turun Sanomat newspaper, Finland

”Each character is more interesting than the one before…The story feels real, and shudder-inducing as a result.”
– Kouvolan Sanomat newspaper, Finland

RIGHTS SOLD
Original publisher: FINLAND, Tammi
GERMANY, DTV

Reading material:
English sample available soon!
English synopsis
Finnish edition

Contact: info@ahlbackagency.com

About author


Pauliina Susi

Pauliina Susi is a versatile writer who has authored a number of crime novels and a non-fiction book about private investigators. She has a master's degree in political science and she has worked as a journalist and editor at several well-known Finnish magazines.

Susi is known for her ability to incorporate current themes into her prose. Her debut novel was nominated for the prestigious Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize and In the Rear Window is the Winner of the Clue of the Year 2016, a recognition of the best crime fiction or detective novel of the year. The readers and critics have been charmed by her Tuulia Raja cozy crime series which combines witty language with complex relationships and intriguing murder mysteries, evoking similarities with the 1980s TV series Moonlighting.

While doing research for her novel, Susi has also become a trained private investigator herself!

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Bibliography


2024, Crime & Suspense

The Focal Point

Pauliina Susi


2023, Crime & Suspense

Electric Atmosphere

Pauliina Susi


2023, Crime & Suspense

Private Property

Pauliina Susi


2020, Crime & Suspense

Pulse

Pauliina Susi


2017, Crime & Suspense

Siren

Pauliina Susi


2015, Crime & Suspense

The Rear Window

Pauliina Susi

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Czech rights to Jussi Valtonen’s critical and commercial hit, They Know Not What They Do, sold to LEDA!

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ValtonenNewsletterJune2015We are very happy to announce that LEDA, publisher of bestselling fiction, nonfiction and educational titles, has acquired Czech rights to Jussi Valtonen’s Finlandia Prize-winning They Know Not What They Do (Tammi 2014) 

Among other contemporary authors published by LEDA are Khaled Hosseini, Marilynne Robinson and Kazuo Ishiguro. LEDA has also published classics by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Set in the U.S. and Finland, They Know Not What They Do explores family loyalties, scientific ethics and the search for identity in a fragmented and technology-ruled society. It has been Finland’s most talked-about novel since its publication in 2014, and has sold 100,000 copies. Rights are sold in eight territories.

Praise from international publishers:

“Jussi Valtonen’s work is ambitious, moving and fresh in the way it regards some of the major issues of our societies.”
– Sophie de Closets, Président Directeur Général, Fayard, France

“Jussi Valtonen is a wonderful writer who asks crucial questions about our time and the technological progress, scrutinizing if it really should be one of the highest goods of our society. Mainly, though, he portrays a family with all possible empathy, and portrays people living and working, loving and failing.”
– Anvar Cukoski, Editor, Piper Verlag, Germany

“It is so exciting to come across a novelist who seeks to engage deeply with the questions of our time, and in They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen has achieved that rare thing – an intelligent, compellingly readable, and above all thought-provoking novel.”
– Juliet Mabey, Publisher, Oneworld, UK

“Jussi Valtonen is one of those authors who can evoke a change in your thoughts, ideas and prejudices, while entertaining you at the same time. The thin line between what we think is our reality, and what it could become, is fascinating. His psychological portraits and observations on science and society are spot on.”
– Juliette van Wersch, Publisher, Signatuur/A.W. Bruna, Netherlands

“This book is fresh and contemporary…it does not contain a single unnecessary word.”
– Ingrida Dubauskienė, editor, Alma Littera, Lithuania

“Jussi Valtonen is the first Finnish author we are going to work with, and we’re very happy to publish his brilliant novel in Hungarian. We are convinced that Valtonen’s fiction will enchant readers on the Ugrian side of our Finno-Ugric language family.”
– András Vörös, Editor, Cser Publishing, Hungary

About They Know Not What They Do:

When professor Joe Chayefski’s neuroscience lab in Baltimore is attacked by animal rights activists, he doesn’t connect the dots at first. But when he receives a phone call from Alina, his Finnish ex-wife, he begins to realize that the threats on his career and new family are connected to Samuel, the son he left behind in Finland two decades ago.

RIGHTS SOLD:
Original publisher: FINLAND, Tammi
CZECH REPUBLIC, LEDA
FRANCE, Fayard
GERMANY, Piper Verlag
HUNGARY, Cser
LITHUANIA, Alma Littera
NETHERLANDS, Signatuur/A.W. Bruna
POLAND, Foksal
WORLD ENGLISH, Oneworld Publications

Reading materials:
English sample
English synopsis
Finnish edition

Contact: info@ahlbackagency.com

About author


Jussi Valtonen

Jussi Valtonen (1974) is an author and psychologist from Helsinki. He has studied neuropsychology in the United States and screenwriting in the UK, and has also worked as a science reporter. He has written three novels and a short story collection.

Carried by Wings (Siipien kantamat, Tammi 2007) was given second place in Bonnier’s novel competition, and received a warm reception from both critics and bloggers. In 2014 Valtonen was awarded the Finlandia Prize, the country’s highest-profile literary award, for They Know Not What They Do (He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät, Tammi 2014).

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Bibliography


2014, Literary Fiction

They Know Not What They Do

Jussi Valtonen

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Korean rights to Tuula Karjalainen’s Tove Jansson biography sold to Munhakdongne!

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ToveJanssonOct1We are very happy to announce that Munhakdongne has acquired Korean rights to Tuula Karjalainen’s award-winning biography of of the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson – Work and Love (Tammi 2013). Publishing about 400 titles yearly, Munhakdongne focuses on bringing fiction and nonfiction by prominent international authors to Korean readers.

Rights to the bestselling book, which narrates the multifaceted and influential artistic career of Tove Jansson, have now been sold in 11 languages! In 2014 Karjalainen was awarded the Lauri Jäntti Prize, given annually to the author of an outstanding work of Finnish nonfiction. The book has been glowingly reviewed around the world.

International praise for Tove Jansson – Work and Love:

“The fascinating back story of a beloved Finnish author…”
– The Economist

“This book weaves together the myriad qualities of a painter, author, illustrator, scriptwriter and lyricist from fraught beginnings through fame, war and heartbreak and ultimately to a peaceful end.”
– BBC Radio, UK

“Tuula Karjalainen’s biography of Tove Jansson resists the simple formula. Sure, the Moomins play a large role in the book, as they did in Jansson’s life, but they never seem to be dominating it. Even after their success, Jansson continued to try perfecting her artistic expression, both as a visual artist and a writer.”
– Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, Sweden

“Reading this well-informed, enthralling book about Tove Jansson is a fascinating experience…the rich visuals are an added bonus.”
– Aftonbladet newspaper, Sweden

Dr. Tuula Karjalainen (b. 1942), Finnish art historian and nonfiction writer, has previously worked as director of the Helsinki Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. She was also the curator of A 100th anniversary exhibition of Tove Jansson’s work at Ateneum in Helsinki through 2014; the exhibition has also toured in Japan.

RIGHTS SOLD:
Original publisher: FINLAND, Tammi (Finnish)
CHINA, Shanghai Cai Qin Ren Culture Diffusion
ESTONIA, Varrak
FINLAND, Schildts & Söderströms (Swedish)
GERMANY, Urachhaus
JAPAN, Kawade Shobo Shinsha
KOREA, Munhakdongne
NORWAY, Heinesen
RUSSIA, Ast
SWEDEN, Norstedts
WORLD ENGLISH, Penguin

Reading material
English edition
Swedish edition
Finnish edition

Format
300 pages, four-colour illustrations, about 150 pictures

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About author


Tuula Karjalainen

Dr. Tuula Karjalainen is a Finnish art historian and non-fiction writer who has previously worked as a director of the Helsinki Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. As the author of Tove Jansson’s biography, Tuula Karjalainen has become an expert not only on Jansson’s works but also on her several decades of personal correspondence and journals.

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Bibliography


2013, General Nonfiction, Memories & Biographies

Tove Jansson: Work and Love

Tuula Karjalainen

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