We are happy to inform you that the FILI Spring 2024 grant application period is now open and will last until 1^st of May 2024. Now it’s the perfect time to acquire your Finnish bestseller and award-winner! Check out our Spring Catalogue here:  Ahlback Agency Spring 2024 – and latest news here: Ahlback Agency News

FILI offers grants to support the translation of Finnish literature. These grants are intended for publishers outside Finland and are to be applied towards the translator’s fee. Grants are awarded for translating works of fiction and general non-fiction, children’s and young adult (YA) books, and comics and graphic novels from the Finnish, Finland-Swedish and Sámi languages. Grants are awarded to cover part of the translation cost, on average, 50 to 70 per cent. Grants are also available for printing costs for comics and graphic novels and for children’s picture books. Read more here: APPLY FOR FILI GRANTS

FILI grants can be applied for all Ahlback Agency titles! Below some pick’s of our bestsellers, award-winners & new titles! We look forward to your excellent publishing decisions!

36 Urns – A History of Being Wrong Sirpa Kähkönen Finland’s Bestseller #1 and Finlandia Winner 2023 “The personal experience of the author grows into a universal reach,  and she finds something globally applicable about humans, hate, anger, lies, hope, dreams and their crumbling, death. The world is not only what one can see. This brings forth a masterpiece, which is worth living for.” – Jorma Uotinen, Finlandia Literature Prize 2023 Grand Juror Request the English materials here

Hyena Days

Saara Turunen

Is it possible to have a child and retain one’s own identity?

“Days of the Hyena is full-blooded fiction that touches the reader on a private level. It is also a socially significant work, which deals with issues related to the female body, infertility and fertility treatments with crystal clear accuracy. It would be a crying injustice if Turunen’s work is not nominated for this year’s Finlandia Prize. Why not even as the winner.”

– Karjalainen newspaper

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Prankenstein

Kaisa Paasto & Mari Ahokoivu

If you could become a prank legend at school, is it worth going for it at any costs? This highly illustrated, bold story encourages even the most reluctant reader to keep on turning the pages!

✓  A funny and prank-filled story with a subtle message about kindness and accepting yourself

✓  For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid

✓  From the successful author-illustrator duo behind the Anni the Friend Tamer series!

✓  Illustrator Mari Ahokoivu won the Puupäähattu Comic Book Award 2023 and has been nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2021

✓  Sequel coming in spring 2025

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Putin’s World War: Russia’s Covert Operations to Destroy the West

Jessikka Aro

The new highly topical title by the winner of International Women of Courage Award

​Russia is threatening the West with World War III, even though it has been waging it for years. As its weapons, the Kremlin uses agents of chaos, a covert operation, fake priests spreading hate speech, hackers recruited from prison, and the gullibility of people.

Jessikka Aro’s new non-fiction book about the Kremlin’s world war presents the secret operations of Putin’s intelligence services in detail.

Read if you dare.

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