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Bonnier Rights Finland Spring 2019 Rights Guide
Bonnier Rights Finland Spring 2019 Rights Guide
Bonnier Rights Finland Spring 2019 Rights Guide
Miki Liukkonen
The Master of Silence
Praise for O:
'O manages to pique the curiosity of the reader on each of its pa-
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– Finlandia Prize Jury
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‘Miki Liukkonen has wri en one of the most important Finnish April 2018
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fic on books of this decade.'
– Helsingin Sanomat Material
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‘Liukkonen’s language is a precise and glorious flight of free spirit.' Synopsis
Author‐Editor Q&A (EN)
– Runeberg Prize Jury
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Miki Liukkonen (b. 1989) made his literary breakthrough with the astonishingly
accomplished novel O (WSOY, 2017) – an encyclopaedic narra ve of ordinary
people and extraordinary events, neuroses, stubborn fixed ideas, and irra onal
things that become the most‐talked‐about literary tour de force in recent years.
A mul ‐talented and gi ed ar st, who feels equally at home in music and poetry
as he does in literature, Liukkonen likens his work to that of David Lynch’s in Contact
succeeding in commercialising the uncommercial. He lives in Helsinki. Eleonoora Kirk
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Katja Kettu
Rose is Gone
Shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2018
Winner of the Readers’ Vote Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2018
Tommi Kinnunen
The Tyynelä family has grown up in the shadows of the glassworks.
Jussi, the eldest of the three siblings, is moved from pillar to post
around different menial jobs at the factory as others work their way up
in the ranks. But he sees the world around him differently, its detail
and sharpness more acutely than those around him.
Jussi’s sisters are consumed by their own lives and worries. Helmi
works at the factory and is filled with nostalgia for the past. Irascible
Raili remembers her former life in Helsinki, living in the belief that to
get ahead in life, one must simply set one’s mind to it. But the war has
changed everything.
With his unmistakable style and lyrical prose, Kinnunen portrays the
microcosm of the glassworks, the des nies of its people and the shape
of their emo ons and rela onships with one another in the a ermath
of the war. A beau fully‐drawn portrayal of forgo en women and
men with stylis c and thema c echoes of John Steinbeck and John Wil‐
liams.
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August 2018
Solitude....” 291 pages
– Oma aika
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Marianna Kurtto
Tristania
Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature 2019
An assured, lyrical novel about the siren call of our roots, and the
force of nature.
It’s 1961 and Lars is happy in England, having found love with Yvonne,
a young and care‐free florist. But soon the tide of guilt and remorse
laps at his toes as he thinks of Lise and Jon, his wife and young son,
who he’d left behind on the island of Tristan. He imagines Jon, stan‐
ding on the black sand of the beach, scanning the horizon for the ship
that might bring his father back. And then news breaks: the volcano on
Tristan has erupted. Will it be too late for Lars to return?
Told in alternating points‐of‐view and flashbacks between the 1950s
and 60s, Tristania is an evocative novel about the life and secrets of the
people in the orbit of a remote volcanic island —both a prison and a
paradise—and the distances between places and people. It speaks of
leaving and returning; about our roots, and how they keep pulling us
back.
Kurtto’s prose is vivid, rich, and poetic as she masterfully inhabits her
protagonists lives and passions—both on Tristan and overseas with
nods to Homer and Strindberg.
Historical note: Tristan da Cunha, (colloquially, ‘Tristan’) a Bri sh Over‐
seas Territory, is an ac ve volcanic island with a popula on of 248 Bri‐
sh ci zens in the middle of the South Atlan c Ocean, 2400 km from
anywhere. The volcano on the island erupted in 1961, which led to the
evacua on of the island. The islanders, however, decided to return to
their ravaged se lement the following year – rejec ng England’s boo‐ All rights available
ming consumerist society in the swinging 1960s. It has inspired writers
including Jules Verne and Alice Munro with its remoteness and thriving Publica on
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‘Marianna Kur o’s first novel is a masterful and self‐assured work of Material
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art with a most engaging atmosphere.’ Full Swedish Transla on
– Helsingin Sanomat Reviews
‘Unique style […] 300 pages of beauty. […] Rythmically calm, yet you Film & TV Rights
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can feel the lava bubbling beneath.’
– Aamuleh
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Camilla Tuominen
How to lead yourself and your business wisely in the era of ar ficial intelli-
gence? Tools for success in the workplace of the future are undoubtedly
emo onal intelligence, crea vity, innova on, linking informa on, and rea-
ding weak signals while machines do the basic work needing linear intelli-
gence.
Learn to lead your emo ons to succeed at work with these indispensable
prac cal tools and wisdom from the leading Nordic expert on harnessing
the power of emo ons. This visual and engaging non-fic on work will pro-
vide the readers a deeper understanding of an essen al meta-skill for the
workplace, for now and into the future. A must-read for fans of Brené
Brown and Simon Sinek’s work.
Tuominen’s clients include top Finnish companies and ins tu ons, such as
Kone, Nordea, F-Secure, Sanoma and Aalto University. She has also given
talks abroad and was interviewed at the Nordic Business Forum live stage
in 2018. She will be giving a talk at TEDx Tampere in early 2019.
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“Camilla’s work in the field of building wellbeing and flourishing
through deeper understanding of emo ons is a gi to everyone. It’s Publica on
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a joy to recommend Camilla’s book to anyone whom it may concern August 2018
– which by the nature of its topic is, indeed, any human anywhere.’” 203 pages
—Emilia Lah , MSci, MAPP, PhD candidate, peace ac vist, aware‐ Material
ness coach and sisu expert Finnish Edi on
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“Camilla has combined her own material, science and inspira onal Author Le er
anecdotes with her gi ed ar s c touch into a work that is a joy to
leaf through, read and reflect upon.’”
— Esa Saarinen, Professor of Applied Philosophy at Aalto
University, Finland
Camilla Tuominen (b. 1975), M.Sc. (Econ.) is a renowned emo on coach, writer,
illustrator, mo va onal speaker, CEO and co-founder of Emo on Tracker, a digi-
tal emo on diary. She has also published a guide to personal finances for school
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children. Her mission is to teach everyone how to understand emo ons, the core
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Fiction
Ina Westman
Archipelago
‘One day we, too, will disappear from here. The island will remain.’
Emma, Joel and their young daughter, Fanni, spend the summer at
their island hideaway in the Finnish archipelago. Despite the lack
of running water and electricity, they enjoy the simple pleasures
of fishing, foraging seaweed and gazing out to sea from between
the boulders and pine trees on their little island sanctuary. But
Emma suffers headaches and hallucinations caused by the livid
scar on her head. Struggling to remember how it got there and
what happened before the summer, she begins to drift away from
Joel, as she and he, in turn, tell their points-of-view with inter-
jecting conversations between Fanni and her grandfather.
Arto Paasilinna
Modern Classics from Finland
The hare, the bear, and the solitary hero...
Arto Paasilinna’s earthy depic ons of the endless escapades of Finns
and their irrepressible a tude towards life have claimed a permanent
place in the na onal canon. His wry language and exuberant op mism
have garnered praise and recogni on worldwide.
In Europe, Paasilinna is considered a prominent eco‐philosopher, who‐
se works are simultaneously meless yet mely; their themes, dark
humour and delving into the heart of humanity con nue to touch new
readers around the world.
Paasilinna is a natural storyteller and blue‐blooded humourist, who
imbues his picaresque novels with a bi ng take on contemporary life
and sa re. At the core of his wild adventures, rife with surprising turns
of events, is a philosophical view of people as prisoners of modern mo‐
res and conven ons.
Almost all of Paasilinna’s novels are founded on a wildly comical no‐
on, implemented throughout his works without fear of consequences.
One of his main themes is freedom – or the illusion thereof. His protag‐
onists have li le considera on for social standing, regula ons or socie‐
tal demands.
Paasilinna’s protagonists pig‐headedly fight conven on, mediocrity and
the other scourges of modern life. They are driven by a burning desire
to return to nature, where human existence would prove simpler. Paa‐
silinna finds material for his humour from the most unlikely of subjects,
such as suicide and unemployment, but always handles them with
Highlighted, bestselling works
compassion and understanding. Clumsy Guardian Angel (2004)
The Reverend’s Beastly Valet (1995)
‘Paasilinna’s style is all Finn ‐ a sly sense of humor, a simplicity, a The Best Village in the World (1992)
The Charming Mass Suicide (1990)
moral compass that points firmly north and out of doors, away The Sweet Poison Cook (1988)
from ci es… Readers root for Vatanen as he leaps off the mad The Forest of the Hanged Foxes (1987)
The Son of the Thunder God (1984)
merry‐go‐round.' The Howling Miller (1981)
– Los Angeles Times, on The Year of the Hare The Year of the Hare (1975)
Filmography
‘The Year of the Hare reminds us that what seems so important The Year of the Hare (1997, France 2006)
The Howling Miller (1982, France 2017)
in our daily lives may not be all that permanent or sustaining.’
– Wall Street Journal Awards & Prizes
Furet du Nord (France, 2004)
Prix Lecture Jeunesse (France, 1995)
Premio Giuseppe Acerbi (Italy, 1994)
Arto Paasilinna (1942‐2018) was born in Ki lä, in Finnish Lapland. He worked by Pro Finlandia (Finland, 1993
Prix Air Inter (France, 1989)
turns as a woodcu er, agricultural labourer and a journalist before his interna‐
onal breakthrough with The Year of the Hare (Jäniksen vuosi, 1975), classified
as a masterpiece of world literature in the UNESCO Collec on of Representa ve
Works and featured in ’10 Foreign Books We Should All Read’ (The Independent, Contact
2015). The oeuvre of Finland’s best‐known author has been translated into over Marja Tuloisela
40 languages and sold over 8.5 million copies worldwide. marja.tuloisela@bonnierrights.fi
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Classic Fic on (Finland)
Mika Waltari
Modern Classics from Finland
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