Three new Fiction deals: Johanna Sinisalo’s STORM FLUTE and BLOOD OF ANGELS and Minna Lindgren’s DEATH IN SUNSET GROVE!

We are extremely happy to announce three new Fiction deals!

Johanna Sinisalo’s THE STORM FLUTE has been acquired by Danish publisher Jensen & Dalgaard

We are thrilled about Ukkoshuilu – ‘The Storm Flute’ and are enthusiastically looking forward to working with this beautiful novel of important urgency; the fourth of Sinisalo’s novels to be published in Danish.
– Jeanne Dalgaard, Publisher, Jensen & Dalgaard, Denmark

THE STORM FLUTE is a masterful novel about the thin line between knowledge and belief, a love letter to the weather – a fierce, global story of the destructive power of the human desire for control. 

Download the English synopsis and sample for STORM FLUTE by clicking here

Johanna Sinisalo’s BLOOD OF ANGELS translation rights have been sold to Hungarian publisher Metropolis!
Metropolis is the Hungarian publisher for Arthur C. Clarke, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, John Wyndham etc

When mass bee-vanishings of unprecedented scope and devastation hit the United States, Orvo, a beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And one day, when Orvo goes to check on his hives, he is forced to witness something he wishes he had never lived to see. The queen is dead. The epidemic has spread to Europe. The world is coming to an end.

Download the full English pdf for BLOOD OF ANGELS by clicking here

And last but not least – Minna Lindgren’s DEATH IN SUNSET GROVE – the first title in the SUNSET GROVE cosy crime series has now been sold to Hungarian publisher Kossuth! 

#1 Death in Sunset Grove

Imagine the Sunset Grove retirement home – filled mostly with bored residents, with empty time filled with never-ending arts and crafts sessions, gym classes, accordion evenings and glasses of red wine.
When two 90-year-old inhabitants – Irma and Siiri – decide to take upon them an investigation of a suspicious death of the retirement home cook, all that is about to change!
#2 Escape from Sunset Grove

Sunset Grove retirement home turns into a kind of hell when it is taken over by foreign construction workers cursing fluently in Finnish. The noise is deafening, a hole appears in the wall, things disappear and residents have to use a portable toilet.

Residents Siiri, Irma and Anna-Liisa, all older than 90, decide to move into a shared apartment in the exotic neighbourhood of Hakaniemi. All three have their own habits and quirks, and life together isn’t entirely free of friction. The women also learn about the sad differences in quality with at-home assistance, and are forced to become familiar with terminal care and questions surrounding euthanasia.
#3 The End of Sunset Grove

The final part of the trilogy marks a return to the retirement community. But the place no longer feels like home, and has turned into a state-funded, technology-driven pilot project in elderly care. The conclusion brings together characters lost along the way, and murky details are brought to light. Legal justice is also served – in unexpected ways. A natural, long-awaited death finally collects some, but still not all, of our main characters.

Download the full English pdfs for THE SUNSET GROVE TRILOGY by clicking here

PS! Don’t forget about FILI grants!

Do you have a perfect Finnish literature project in mind but would need some support for the translation costs?

We are happy to let you know that FILI translation grant application period started on October 1st and ends on November 1st! The grant can cover up to 70% of your Finnish/Finland-Swedish translation project.

Last period, over 100 projects were awarded a grant! Read more from: https://fili.fi/…/finnish-literature-into-other-languages/