They've announced the Finlandia Prize for Fiction candidates 2012 -- the finalists for the Finlandia-palkinto -- selected from some 130 novels, with the winner to be announced 4 December.
One of the finalists -- Nälkävuosi, by Aki Ollikainen; see the Books from Finland mini-review -- just took the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the biggest Finnish first book prize; see the report On life and death; it beat out 79 other works.
One of the finalists -- Nälkävuosi, by Aki Ollikainen; see the Books from Finland mini-review -- just took the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the biggest Finnish first book prize; see the report On life and death; it beat out 79 other works.