Swedish novel takes Finlandia Prize

       There's a reasonably large (and surprisingly literarily active) Swedish-speaking (and writing) minority in Finland (indeed, the most recent addition to the complete review is a Finnish novel written in Swedish; see below), and so it's not entirely surprising that this year's Finlandia-palkinto went to a book originally written in Swedish (though in fact the author is from the Åland islands); as Books from Finland reports in: The Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2012, the €30,000 went to Is, by Ulla-Lena Lundberg (Finnish title: Jää).
       See also the brief (English) description at Books from Finland, or the Schildts & Söderströms publicity page.