The Finlandia-palkinto is the most prestigious Finnish literary prize -- and comes with €30,000 in prize money.
They've now announced that He eivät tiedä mitä he tekevät, by Jussi Valtonen, won this year's prize; see the Elina Ahlback Literary Agency information page (foreign rights still very much available ...), or the Tammi (Finnish) publicity page, or see And the winner is ... Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2014 at Books from Finland.
It does feature American characters and locales: "When professor Joe Chayefski's neuroscience lab in Baltimore is attacked by animal rights activists, he doesn't connect the dots at first" the description at his agent's site begins ..... Disappointingly, it seems this isn't just based on Valtonen having seen a couple of episodes of The Wire but rather personal familiarity with the locale -- he studied at Johns Hopkins for a while .....
Nothing of his is available in English yet -- well, except for his other writing: see, for example, New learning of music after bilateral medial temporal lobe damage: evidence from an amnesic patient (warning ! dreaded pdf format !), on which he was the lead author.
They've now announced that He eivät tiedä mitä he tekevät, by Jussi Valtonen, won this year's prize; see the Elina Ahlback Literary Agency information page (foreign rights still very much available ...), or the Tammi (Finnish) publicity page, or see And the winner is ... Finlandia Prize for Fiction 2014 at Books from Finland.
It does feature American characters and locales: "When professor Joe Chayefski's neuroscience lab in Baltimore is attacked by animal rights activists, he doesn't connect the dots at first" the description at his agent's site begins ..... Disappointingly, it seems this isn't just based on Valtonen having seen a couple of episodes of The Wire but rather personal familiarity with the locale -- he studied at Johns Hopkins for a while .....
Nothing of his is available in English yet -- well, except for his other writing: see, for example, New learning of music after bilateral medial temporal lobe damage: evidence from an amnesic patient (warning ! dreaded pdf format !), on which he was the lead author.