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Finland’s biggest daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, recently published 100 Best Books from Finland chosen by both the critics and literature professionals and readers alike. We are very proud to see, that many of our talented authors were listed on these lists.
Maria Turtschaninoff is a favourite among both readers and critics. Her internationally bestselling novel Inherited Land ranked #20 on the Readers’ list and #23 on the Critics’ list.
A nominee for European Literature Prize 2024, the novel has been sold to 23 territories. The novel will be published on April 10 in the UK by Pushkin Press as Tangled Roots.
Another of her acclaimed and bestselling works, Maresi, winner of Finlandia Junior Prize, sold to 30 territories, is also featured on the Critics’ list at #26.
Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo ranks #5 on the Critics’ list, hailed as “a memorable, multifaceted, and unique portrayal of otherness, desire, and the relationship between humans and nature.” This Finlandia Prize-winning novel from 2000 also appears at #23 on the Readers’ list. Republished in December in the UK by Pushkin Press, the book has received rave reviews, with critics noting it “still feels fresh and bright 20 years on”.
Johanna Sinisalo is also featured on the Critic’s list with another acclaimed worke, The Core of the Sun, ranked at #43.
Bestselling author, and favourite among both readers and critics, Tommi Kinnunen is featured on both lists. His Finlandia Prize 2014 novel, Where Four Roads Meet, earned a spot on the Readers’ list at #12, and on the Critics’ list at #65. Kinnunen’s latest bestseller (40,000 copies sold), another Finlandia nominee, Pine Bark, was ranked #18 in the readers’ list. Additionally, his novel Dark Moons also secured a spot among the Readers’ favourites at #80.
Mia Kankimäki’s The Women I Think About at Night is also a favorite, ranking #25 on the Critics’ list and #47 on the Readers’ list. Her earlier work, Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, appears on the Readers’ list at #71.
Emmi Itäranta’s atmospheric novel Memory of Water is another notable entry, securing #40 on the Critics’ list and an even higher #24 on the Readers’ list.
“A modern dystopian classic. — A dark vision of the future crafted with polished language and emotional precision.”
With the honor of having prose compared to that of Ursula K. Le Guin, this novel has been sold to 25 territories, won multiple awards and premiered as an international feature film.
Here are all the Ahlback Agency author’s and books on the Readers’ list:
#6 Jussi Valtonen – They Know Not What They Do
#12 Tommi Kinnunen – Where Four Roads Meet, Critics’ List Rank: #65
#18 Tommi Kinnunen – Pine Bark
#20 Maria Turtschaninoff – Inherited Land, Critics’ List Rank: #23
#21 Sirpa Kähkönen – 36 Urns
#23 Johanna Sinisalo – Troll: A Love Story, Critics’ List Rank: #5
#24 Emmi Itäranta – Memory of Water, Critics’ List Rank: #40
#26 Elina Pitkäkangas – Sang
#29 Saara Turunen – Love/Monster
#38 Hanna-Riikka Kuisma – High Rise
#41 Hanna-Riikka Kuisma – Treatment
#42 Riikka Pulkkinen – True
#45 Sirpa Kähkönen – The Granite Man, Critics’ List Rank: #84
#47 Mia Kankimäki – The Women I Think About at Night, Critics’ List Rank: #25
#48 Aki Ollikainen – White Hunger, Critics’ List Rank: #12
#52 Saara Turunen – The Bystander
#55 Katja Kettu – The Midwife, Critics’ List Rank: #46
#59 S. K. Rostedt – Daughter of Two Bloods
#60 Saara Turunen – Irrational Things
#71 Mia Kankimäki – Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster
#72 Miika Nousiainen – Raspberry Boat Refugee
#73 Tuomas Niskakangas – Their Turn to Burn
#74 Leena Parkkinen – After You, Max
#80 Tommi Kinnunen – Dark Moons
#83 Riikka Pulkkinen – The Limit
#100 Juha Itkonen – The More Loving One, Critics’ List Rank: #85
Here are all the Ahlback Agency author’s and books on the Critics’ list:
#5 Johanna Sinisalo – Troll: A Love Story
#12 Aki Ollikainen – White Hunger
#18 Laura Lindstedt – Oneiron
#23 Maria Turtschaninoff – Inherited Land
#25 Mia Kankimäki – The Women I Think About at Night
#26 Maria Turtschaninoff – Maresi
#32 Laura Gustafsson – Whorestory
#40 Emmi Itäranta – A Memory of Water
#43 Johanna Holmström – Island of Souls
#46 Katja Kettu – The Midwife
#47 Kimmo Rentola – How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950
#65 Tommi Kinnunen – Where Four Roads Meet,
#74 Tuutikki Tolonen, ill. Pasi Pitkänen – Monster Nanny
#84 Sirpa Kähkönen – The Granite Man
#85 Juha Itkonen – The More Loving One