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WSOY Literary Foundation’s 2025 recognition awards have been presented. Author Sanna Nyqvist has been awarded for her work as a non-fiction author. The prizes are worth €10,000 and are awarded annually in recognition of outstanding production. WSOY Literary Foundation is an independent non-profit foundation with a purpose to promote Finnish literature. The Foundation fulfills its purpose by awarding grants and prizes, by awarding recidency places both in Finland and overseas and by promoting reading. Established in 1942, the WSOY Literary Foundation awards annual prizes to authors, translators, illustrators, and other literary professionals.
CONGRATULATIONS!
The Literary Foundation describes Sanna Nyqvist:
“As a non-fiction writer, Sanna Nyqvist specializes in phenomena related to literary culture. These include literary awards—such as the Nobel Prize—and the difficult ethical questions that arise regularly in literary discourse: literary forgeries and fraud, plagiarism, and quotations that stretch the boundaries of copyright. When is the use of quotations or imitation of another writer’s style creative and original in fiction, and when is it simply borrowing? How should the work of others be used in nonfiction books? Nyqvist describes these cases clearly, analytically, humorously, and in flexible and lively Finnish.
Nyqvist’s latest work, By the Seashore: How Writers Discovered the Sea, describes the significance of the seashore, both in cultural history and in the works of certain writers. In Nyqvist’s subtle lecture, the shore grows into an independent space that binds together many meanings, including ecological ones. Literature preserves an image of a landscape that no longer exists.”
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By the Seashore: How Writers Discovered the Sea
Follow Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Tove Jansson and other classic writers to the beach and experience the landscape through the eyes of a writer.
By the Seashore is a fascinating journey through salt-scented cultural history and to the authors’ favourite beaches. Jane Austen adventured along the south coast of England, Marcel Proust returned year after year to the shimmering light of Normandy, and Tove Jansson created her own paradise on an island in the Gulf of Finland. The magic of the beaches is part of our shared experience and our relationship with nature. But how long will we be able to experience our beloved beaches as they are now? This was already being pondered by August Strindberg in the late 19th century, when industry and tourism were shaping the Stockholm archipelago.
By the Seashore is a gripping and surprising account of why beaches have become landscapes of emotion, safe havens as well as islands of adventure.
Publication info:
Tammi, 2024
283pp
Rights sold:
FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)
ESTONIA: Rahva Raamat
GERMANY: mareverlag
UKRAINE: Laboratory LLC
Reading materials:
Finnish edition
English sample
English summary
Author’s vision
