Finlandia Prize ふぃんらんでぃあしょう
Edition 12 (1995)
Fiction (novels)Nonfiction (factual and specialist books)Children's and young adult literature
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Hannu Mäkelä
Winner
A biographical novel that reimagines the final days of the poet Eino Leino through his own voice.
Eino Leino's final days rise slowly and vividly through his own imagined voice.
572 pages
biographical novelFinnish literaturepoetmemoryhistorical fiction