Stella Parland
I was born in 1974 and live in Helsingfors, in a flat with lots of nooks and corners. I studied literature, theatre and history at the University of Helsingfors. In addition, I spent two wonderful years in Bologna in Italy studying theatre. I often return to Italy to spend several months of the year there. My great passion is theatre, which I see, read about, think about, dream about – and work with. For more than three years I have been a freelance theatre critic for the national daily newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet. Sometimes – though more seldom – I can also be seen on the stage. Together with Malin Kivelä I am editor-in-chief of the journal Kontur. I am interested in languages, absurd phenomena, eccentric people and unusual plays and verse.
Prizes & Awards:
Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) 2012
Award from the Lars Englund Foundation 2011
Nominated for the Finlandia Junior Prize 2003. “Stella Parland and Linda Bondestam have produced an unusually rich picture book of poetry, which speaks to readers of all ages. Parland has a supreme facility with rhythm and rhyme…” – Praise for Catastrophes and Strophes on Dozing Off and Making a Din from the Finlandia Junior Prize jury
Award from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland 2004. “…a book of verse and drawings produced jointly. Its crazy verbal acrobatics places it in the great Lennart Hellsing tradition. The rhymes, verbal rigmarole and madness that ennoble the protagonists make the verse so memorable. Playful readers of all ages will find tools and stimuli here for their own linguistic creativity.” – Praise for Catastrophes and Strophes on Dozing Off and Making a Din from the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland award jury
Works:
Smaskens Damaskens (translation), 2010
Gnatto pakpak, 2010
Delirium – The Novel about a Dog, 2004
Catastrophes and Strophes on Dozing Off and Making a Din, 2003
Poems about Destinies and Death, 1999
Written by Stella Parland | Illustrated by Linda Bondestam
Gnatto Pakpak
Iiii – bzzz – pippip. Or something quite different? What sounds do insects make? This little collection of pictures and letters is swarming with creepy-crawlies of all kinds: familiar, unfamiliar and completely unknown ones – ones never seen before. Here colours and letters swarm around one another.
The creepy-crawly book Gnatto Pakpak can be a pointing book for the very youngest, a child’s first art gallery with letters to read aloud – or quite simply a small dose of concentrated joy between two covers for anybody at all.
In the company of Linda Bondestam and Stella Parland anything can happen – just as it has already in their previous books: Catastrophes and Strophes on Dozing Off and Making a Din and Delirium.
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