Elina Hirvonen

Elina Hirvonen is an award-winning Finnish novelist and documentary filmmaker whose work has been translated into multiple languages. Her debut novel When I Forgot was featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review and received acclaim from The Independent, The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Globe and Mail.

Hirvonen has been awarded the Kalevi Jäntti Prize and the Nuori Aleksis Prize, and her work has been nominated for the prestigious Finlandia Prize.

Her recent documentary film, The Secret Reading Club of Kabul explores reading, resistance, and inner life under conditions of violence—questions that also resonate at the heart of her latest nove, The Logbook of Beauty.