Finland prepares for 2014

       Finland will be the 'guest of honour' at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2014, and they are already starting to prepare, as Jukka Petäjä reports in Helsingin Sanomat, in Finnish books to be showcased at Frankfurt Fair in 2014.
       FILI-head Iris Schwanck reports:

One aim is to get more than 100 Finnish books translated into German in 2014, and thereafter to put out about 70 books a year in German, which is nearly 50 per cent more than is happening now.

       Interesting also that:

The threshold for Finland was not very high, because Finnish literature has already achieved a considerable foothold in Germany. At present Germany is the most important country of export for Finnish literature, and having a book translated into German leads to translations into other languages as well.

       (One would expect/hope English to be the language of choice, but given US/UK attitudes towards writing in translation ... maybe not.)