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Finlandia Prize ふぃんらんでぃあしょう

Edition 4 (1987)

Fiction (novels)Nonfiction (factual and specialist books)Children's and young adult literature

Winners

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Helvi Hämäläinen’s poetry collection after a long silence. Vivid imagery and painful memory come to the fore, blending private confession with a wider view of the times.

A forceful, painful poetry collection that returned Hämäläinen to the spotlight.

94 pages
poetrymemorypostwar experienceself-examinationlate-career return