Turn off the Lights! Turn on the Lights!

Salla Simukka

Original title: Sammuta valot! Sytytä valot!

Author: Salla Simukka

Published: 2018

Publisher: Tammi

Genre: Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Pages: 220

Reading material:

English sample

A collection of ”little awesome stories and little awful stories” from Finland’s internationally most successful YA author.

What is the most awful or the most awesome thing that has happened to you? Salla Simukka’s anticipated new book includes little awful stories and little awesome stories about young people’s lives. Why are under-fifteens not allowed in the basement? What happened in Dog’s Head Park? Who makes nightly visits in Klara’s solitary confinement room? What does it take to make out with lights on?

The flip book Turn Off the Lights! Turn On the Lights! shows the both sides of the matter; the stories mirror each other in surprising and exhilarating ways, and the genres range from horror to romance to sci-fi and realism.

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Rights sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
LATVIA: Zvaigzne ABC Publishers

About author

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 has written several novels for young readers and her accolades include the Topelius Prize 2013 and the Finland Prize 2013. Simukka has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award  every year 2021–2024. Where It All Begins, published in 2022, is her first novel for adults and in 2024 she started a collaboration with JP Ahonen on a middle grade novel.

Previously Simukka has written book reviews for the newspapers, translated all kinds of texts into Finnish, worked as an editor at a literary magazine and as a screenwriter for a popular TV show for young audiences.  She has also been working on the programme of Turku Book Fair in 2017–2020.

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Bibliography


2024, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Salla Simukka

The Secret Staircase


2022, Literary Fiction

Salla Simukka

Where It All Begins


2021, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

In the Dark I Can Be Yours


2020, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Detained


2018, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Turn off the Lights! Turn on the Lights!


2016, Middle Grade (8-12 Years)

Salla Simukka

Sisterland


2014, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

As Black as Ebony


2013, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

As Red as Blood


2013, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

As White as Snow


2012, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

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Elsewhere


2012, Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Salla Simukka

Without a Trace


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