Thanks for the Book Award
1 appearances
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Edition 23 (1986) Winner
Leena Krohn
レーナ・クローン
Leena Krohn
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1947-02-28 （Helsinki）
- Nationality
- Finland
- Languages
- Finnish
- Residence History
- Helsinki
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, short story writer, children's author, essayist
- Active Years
- 1970-
- Nominations
- 2005 World Fantasy Award nomination (Tainaron), 2005 International Horror Guild Award nomination (Tainaron)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Finlandia Prize | Mathematical Beings or Shared Dreams | — | Finnish Literature Society | 受賞 |
Finlandia Prize
1992
Work:
Mathematical Beings or Shared Dreams
Organization:
Finnish Literature Society
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Finlandia Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (1992) Winner
Works
Major Works
Tainaron: Mail From Another City
1985 fantasy novelA fantastical story told through letters from another city, exploring boundaries between reality and illusion from an insect's perspective.
reality and illusionproblems of lifeartificial intelligence
Translations
- English, German, Bulgarian, etc.
Bibliography
- The Green Revolution
- The Girl Who Grew Up and other stories
- The Last Summer Guest. Stories about people
- In Human Clothing. A tale of the city
- Short Stories
- The Finnish Mignon. Poems and Songs 1965–1977
- Troll. Tales of the water level
- The Forest Cover. Tales of things lost
- Gallery
- Doña Quixote and other citizens. Portrait
- Heart Tree
- Tainaron: Mail from Another City
- Gold of Ophir
- Rustling and Other papers
- Umbra. A Glimpse of the Archive of Paradoxes
- Mathematical Beings or Shared Dreams
- Witness' Gaze
- Secrets
- Tribar
- Do Not Read This Book
- That Distance Shall Not Yearn
- The Pen and the Machine
- Pereat Mundus: A novel of sorts
- Sphinx or Robot: A philosophical picture book for people of all ages
- What Trees Do in August
- Datura, or a figment seen by everyone
- Three blind men and one who can see
- A Dream Death
- Mehiläispaviljonki
- Kotini on Riioraa
- Hotel Sapiens
- Collected Fiction
Translations of Works
- Translated into English, German, Bulgarian, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Italian
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- fantasticalphilosophicalexperimental
- Recurring Motifs
- humans' relationships with themselves and the worldmoralityborders between reality and illusionproblem of lifeartificial intelligence
Legacy
Finnish author known for her large and varied body of work including novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. Recipient of the Finlandia Prize. Books translated into many languages. Early adopter of the Internet in literary work.
Trivia
- One of the early adopters of the Internet in her literary work in the mid-1990s.