AUTHORS
Heikki Aalto-Alanen
Heikki Aalto-Alanen is the grandson of architects Aino and Alvar Aalto, who has previously served as vice chairman of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, been [...]
Piia Aho
Piia Aho is a graphic designer who loves book design more than anything. She always makes an effort to find the perfect visual tone for each book – [...]
Mari Ahokoivu
Mari Ahokoivu (b. 1984) is a Finnish illustrator and a comics artist. She’s been drawing professionally for over 10 years, mainly drawing graphic no [...]
Jessikka Aro
Jessikka Aro (born 1980) is a Finnish journalist working for Finland’s public service broadcaster Yle. In September 2014, she began to investigate p [...]
Elina Backman
Elina Backman is a media & marketing professional living in Helsinki, in an old wooden 1920 house with a family of 2 kids and a husband. Elina lov [...]
Tapani Bagge
Tapani Bagge (born 1962) is known for his versatility. He has written more than 20 books for children and teens, more than 50 Jerry Cottons, as well a [...]
Ann-Luise Bertell
Ann-Luise Bertell in an author and a theater director, born 1971 in Oravais, Finland. She has gratuated from Finnish Theater Academy, and debuted as a [...]
Raisa Cacciatore
Raisa Cacciatore MD, is a child psychiatrist, special competence in adolescent health, specialist physician, and an EMDR Europe Accredited Practitione [...]
Laura Ertimo
Laura Ertimo is a geographer and author. She has previously worked in publishing of geography-related non-fiction and maps, and now she writes full ti [...]
Kevin Frazier
Kevin Frazier is a novelist, nonfiction writer, essayist and reviewer who lives in Helsinki. Previous collaborations between Halonen and Frazier inclu [...]
Laura Gustafsson
Laura Gustafsson is a novelist and playwright. Recurring themes in her work include oppression, violence, animal rights and the environment, whic [...]
Laura Haapamäki
Laura Haapamäki is a Lapland-based illustrator. She loves to portray fictional people and places in her illustrations and does most of her work on th [...]
Kaisa Haatanen
Kaisa Haatanen (b. 1966) is a Helsinki-based publisher who describes herself as ”an old maid, a firstborn and a big sister, not particularly ugly or [...]
Magdalena Hai
Magdalena Hai is a lover of cross genre fiction and all things strange, and her fiction often combines elements of sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Besides [...]
Arto Halonen
Arto Halonen is a film director and screenwriter, known for his strong socially-conscious stance towards his subjects. He is one of the few people in [...]
Karo Hämäläinen
Karo Hämäläinen (b. 1976) has two passions: literature and the stock market, and has a 15-year background as an economics reporter. He works as the [...]
Carita Harju
Carita Harju has always enjoyed saunas and takes a sauna with her family nearly every day. In 2010, she founded Sauna from Finland, because she felt t [...]
Mikko-Pekka Heikkinen
Mikko-Pekka Heikkinen was born in the Finnish countryside and lives in Helsinki. He works as a journalist, specializing on culture and nature. He has [...]
Saku Heinänen
Saku Heinänen is an illustrator, type designer, and former professor of graphic design at Aalto University. He creates light and shadow in his illust [...]
Elina Hirvonen
Elina Hirvonen is an author of adults’ and children’s prose, a journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has written four highly acclaimed adults [...]
Timo Honkela
Timo Honkela researched artificial intelligence and machine learning for over 30 years, and served as a professor in three universities, including his [...]
Hannele Huovi
Hannele Huovi (born 1949) is an acclaimed Finnish author who wrote her first children’s radio play while studying for her university degree. In addi [...]
Ville Hytönen
Ville Hytönen (b. 1982) is a poet, children’s book writer, bookshop owner, columnist and publishing director at Savukeidas Publishing, which he fou [...]
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 [...]
Riikka Jäntti
Riikka Jäntti, a 2003 graduate of Helsinki’s School of Art and Design, now part of Aalto University, is a Helsinki-based illustrator and author who [...]
J. K. Johansson
J. K. Johansson is the pen name of a group of professional storytellers. Johansson loves Nordic crime novels, HBO series, well-written sex scenes, and [...]
Teemu Juhani
Teemu Juhani (born 1987) equals Finnish illustrator, comic artist and graphic designer currently based in London, UK. Born and raised in a land o [...]
Mia Kankimäki
Mia Kankimäki is the author of two best-selling books which blend travelogue, memoir, biography and women’s history. After taking a master’s degr [...]
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 th [...]
Jussi Karjalainen
Jussi Karjalainen is a graphic designer, illustrator and co-founder of Napa Books. His distinctive artwork has featured widely across books, music and [...]
Markku Karpio
Markku Karpio worked as a kindergarten teacher for 12 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1996, one year after the publication of his debut no [...]
Petri Karra
Petri Karra is a writer from Helsinki, who is also known a screenwriter for tv and films. His works are often focused around families, and the circle [...]
Riina Katajavuori
Riina Katajavuori is known for both her poetry and her prose, which includes works for both adults and children; her poetry has been transl [...]
Sissi Katz
Sissi Katz is an ophthalmologist from Helsinki. Elements of her novel, The Amazing Life and Times of Coco Kafka, are inspired by the author’s o [...]
Anssi Keränen
Anssi Keränen, an author and illustrator, has a master’s degree in graphic design from the University of Art and Design Helsinki (now part of Aalto [...]
Valpuri Kerttula
Valpuri Kerttula is a Finnish illustrator and designer based in Lahti, Finland. In addition to diverse domestic work, her art is also being published [...]
Satu Kettunen
Satu Kettunen won 2015 Rudolf Koivu award for her debut picture book ”Otso Aarnisen salaperäinen seikkailu”. Her second book, Yökirja (together [...]
Marko Kilpi
Marko Kilpi (b. 1969) is an author and policeman. Praised by critics, his novels have been awarded several literary prize nominations. The Land of the [...]
Konsta Klemetti
Konsta Klemetti has worked for several leading game companies in Helsinki and is the core member of the story-driven transmedia studio Action Squad St [...]
Terhi Kokkonen
Terhi Kokkonen (1974) is a Helsinki-based musician and pop lyricist. She is known for the band Scandinavian Music Group, as well as being one of the s [...]
Satu Kontinen
Satu Kontinen (b. 1976) is a graphic designer and illustrator obsessed with little animals and Instagram photography. She is known for using bold colo [...]
Tomi Kontio
Tomi Kontio is one of the most esteemed and acclaimed poets of his generation. His debut collection of poetry Under the Ballroom Sky, which came [...]
Erja Korteniemi-Poikela
Erja Korteniemi-Poikela is a midwife, nurse, clinical sex-therapist, and a nonfiction author. She has had a long career working with the sexual health [...]
Hanna Kuisma
Hanna-Riikka Kuisma (b. 1978) is a writer, art critic and columnist from Pori. Her latest novel, High-Rise, was nominated for the Finlandia Prize, and [...]
Noora Kunnas
Noora Kunnas (born in 1987) is a children’s author from Helsinki, Finland. She has the knack for making both children and grownups laugh while they [...]
Emilia Lahti
Emilia Lahti is a doctoral candidate, entrepreneur, international leadership trainer and leading expert of the global phenomenon of sisu. She is also [...]
Leena Lehtolainen
Leena Lehtolainen is the top female crime author in Finland: her new titles always head straight to #1 on the Finnish bestseller lists. Leena’s [...]
Antti Leikas
Antti Leikas is an author, father and mathematician, who has worked in tech companies, as a newspaper photographer and as the editor-in-chief of the O [...]
Antti Leikas
Antti Leikas is an author, father and mathematician, who has worked in tech companies, as a newspaper photographer and as the editor-in-chief of the O [...]
Anne Leinonen
Anne Leinonen (b.1973) is a multiple-award winning, key author, tutor and editor of Finnish science fiction and fantasy. Leinonen’s short stories ha [...]
Minna Lindgren
Minna Lindgren (b. 1963) is a freelance journalist and columnist known for her whimsical writing style and fearless approach to topics as strange as o [...]
Mervi Lindman
Mervi Lindman (b.1971) is a much-loved illustrator whose cheerful artworks have been published in 15 different countries to date. Lindman’s illustra [...]
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 f [...]
Aino Louhi
Aino Louhi (s. 1981) in an artist whose large range of works include paintings and installations, as well as children’s book illustrations and comic [...]
Kristiina Louhi
Kristiina Louhi is an artist and an awarded graphic designer, illustrator and author. She has illustrated dozens of children’s books over the years [...]
Meri Luttinen
Meri Luttinen (1987) is a Tampere-based debut writer. She has a Master's degree in Finnish language and literature and has worked with Finnish teachin [...]
Frank Martela
Frank Martela, PhD, is an academic researcher who is a leading expert in the topics of the meaning in life, happiness and human wellbeing. He has coll [...]
Sara Medberg
Sara Medberg is a historian currently writing a doctoral dissertation about the education of highborn girls in the 18th century. The ideas for her nov [...]
Mooses Mentula
Mooses Mentula was born in Tuupovaara, Eastern Finland and grew up in Kuhmo, Kainuu. From the age of 16 he worked as a journalist for newspapers and r [...]
Kari Nars
Dr. Kari Nars has a long and distinguished career in various high banking positions in London, Washington and Paris, and as a director of Finland’s [...]
Inka Nousiainen
Inka Nousiainen is an award-winning author from Helsinki, who writes fiction, children’s books and lyrics for different artists. She was only 17 yea [...]
Miika Nousiainen
Miika Nousiainen writes sharp, gentle and often tragicomical novels about surprising themes like long-distance running, the desire to be Swedish, and [...]
Harri Nykänen
Harri Nykänen is an industrious novelist who draws on his 20 years of experience as a crime reporter at Helsingin Sanomat, the largest daily in the N [...]
Anni Nykänen
Anni Nykänen is a comic artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Her comics have thrice been nominated for the prestigious Comic Finlandia Award. [...]
A. M. Ollikainen
A. M. Ollikainen is a pseudonym for a husband-and-wife author duo Aki and Milla Ollikainen. Aki Ollikainen has published three novels and won the Hels [...]
Jorma Ollila
Jorma Ollila became the pre-eminent European businessman of his generation during his time as CEO of Nokia Corporation from 1992 to 2006. Ollila curre [...]
Ulla-Maija Paavilainen
Ulla-Maija Paavilainen, award-winning journalist, is the author of several well-received novels and non-fiction books. She has worked as the edit [...]
Katja Pantzar
Helsinki-based writer, editor and broadcast journalist Katja Pantzar was born in Finland and raised and educated in Canada. A freelance member of the [...]
Aki Parhamaa
Aki Parhamaa is studying creative writing at the University of Jyväskylä, and writing a Finnish superhero movie. Together with Anders Vacklin he has [...]
Leena Parkkinen
Leena Parkkinen has authored three prize-winning adults’ novels set in 20th century Europe, often about people living at the margins society. H [...]
Sanna Pelliccioni
Sanna Pelliccioni is a Finnish illustrator, graphic designer and children’s author living in Helsinki with her Finnish-Italian family. Pelliccioni i [...]
Sari Peltoniemi
Sari Peltoniemi is a versatile and respected author who writes for children, young adults, and adults. She has also written lyrics and played the bass [...]
Virpi Penna
Virpi Penna is an award-winning illustrator and graphic artist, whose images glow with the delicate joy of colour and the enchantment of fairy ta [...]
Karoliina Pertamo
Karoliina Pertamo is an artist who has illustrated more than 30 books. She works with a bright color palette and also uses collage in her charmingly n [...]
Emmi Pesonen
Emmi Pesonen (1977) is a Helsinki-based writer, screenwriter and actress. She graduated in 2001 as a Master of Theater Arts and has worked as an actor [...]
Maria Pettersson
As a child, Maria Pettersson’s dream job was to be an international adventurer. Instead, she became an award-winning journalist, the editor-in-chief [...]
Maria Peura
Maria Peura (b. 1970) is a prize-winning author and dramaturge. She was given the prestigious Young Aleksis Kivi Prize, and nominated for the Finlandi [...]
Matti Pikkujämsä
Matti Pikkujämsä has created illustrations for nearly a dozen children’s books as well as several national magazines and newspapers in Finlan [...]
Pasi Pitkänen
Pasi Pitkänen has become known for his richly detailed illustrative work on several children’s books such as the Monster Nanny trilogy by Tuutikki [...]
Perttu Pölönen
Perttu Pölönen is a futurist, inventor and an inspirational speaker. He has won the EU’s biggest science competition for youth and studied exponen [...]
Iida Rauma
Iida Rauma is an author of two prize-winning novels. Her writing tackles notions of power, sexuality, violence, and the relationship between humans an [...]
Eeva Rohas
Eeva Rohas is a critically acclaimed author who writes about social misfits. Rohas received her doctoral degree in contemporary culture research in 20 [...]
Aapo Roselius
AAPO ROSELIUS is a resercher and a nonfiction author, who has studied extensively the Finnish Civil War and the history of the 1920s and 1930s. [...]
Veera Salmi
Veera Salmi (1976) is a Helsinki-based writer, who has worked over 15 years as a kindergarten teacher. The real starting point for her career as a wri [...]
Nadja Sarell
Nadja Sarell has degrees in dance and illustration, and loves to teach children and adults alike. If Nadja was an animal, she would be a cat living in [...]
Max Seeck
MAX SEECK has a background in sales and marketing. Increasingly, Seeck devotes his time to writing professionally fulltime. An avid reader of Nordic N [...]
Oula Silvennoinen
Oula Silvennoinen, PhD, is a historian and an author of narrative non-fiction who specializes on the upheavals of the modern era within the Nordic and [...]
Salla Simukka
Salla Simukka is the author of the international success story The Snow White Trilogy: rights are sold in 52 territories and in Hollywood. She ha [...]
Johanna Sinisalo
Johanna Sinisalo (1958) is one of Finland’s most successful and internationally acclaimed authors. Praised by readers and critics alike, she has won [...]
Lotta Sonninen
Lotta Sonninen works as an editor of Finnish fiction and has also translated a lot of nonfiction. She got the idea for The Little Book of Bad Moods wh [...]
Katariina Souri
Katariina Souri (b. 1968) is an author, columnist and writer for film and television. Her debut novel, Me and Morrison (Minä ja Morrison, Tammi 1999) [...]
Miina Supinen
Miina Supinen (b. 1976) is a journalist, essayist and author. Her critically acclaimed novels and short stories have a dedicated fan following, and ma [...]
Pauliina Susi
Pauliina Susi has worked as a journalist and editor at several well-known Finnish magazines. She has a master’s degree in political science, and is [...]
Petri Tamminen
Petri Tamminen is a Finnish author best known for his laconic humor and short stories, and 6 novels. How to greet an alien is his first book for child [...]
Anniina Tarasova
Anniina Tarasova is a Helsinki-based storyteller who’s worked in the leadership of a startup. Her family comes from Finland, Karelia, and St. Peters [...]
Mila Teräs
Mila Teräs has written several books for children, young adults and adults, and been nominated for the prestigious Finlandia Junior and Topelius priz [...]
Tuutikki Tolonen
Tuutikki Tolonen is the author of several acclaimed children’s books, plays and academic articles. For Monster Nanny she received the Arvid Lydecken [...]
Katja Törmänen
KATJA TÖRMÄNEN is a history teacher by training and a writer by profession. She has also studied and taught creative writing. She lives in Oulu, Nor [...]
Maria Turtschaninoff
Maria Turtschaninoff is known for crafting lyrical, historically inspired fantasy stories starring strong female protagonists. In addition to J.R [...]
Saara Turunen
Saara Turunen is an internationally acclaimed award-winning author, playwright and director. She is known for her bold and direct style and [...]
Anders Vacklin
Anders Vacklin is a prize-winning screenwriter, dramaturge, script doctor, and author of several manuals on scriptwriting. Together with Aki Parhamaa [...]
Jyrki Vainonen
Jyrki Vainonen (1963) is an award-winning Finnish author who is renowned for his Finnish translations of the works of Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Swift an [...]
Heikki Valkama
Heikki Valkama is an acclaimed journalist who has worked as an editor-in-chief at several Finnish quality magazines. Additionally he has written books [...]
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, an [...]
Heidi Viherjuuri
Heidi Viherjuuri is a teacher, children’s writer and a blogger, who lives in Germany. She grew up in a small village in the Finnish countryside – [...]
Kati Vuorento
Kati Vuorento is an illustrator living and working in Helsinki, Finland. ”In small details there is an infinite magic. I want my illustrations to st [...]
