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6 unusual facts about Finlandia Prize


Gösta Ågren

Gösta Ågren (born 1936 in Nykarleby) is a Swedish-language Finnish author who won the Finlandia Prize in 1988 for Jär.

Jörn Donner

His novel Far och son (Father and Son) won the Finlandia Prize in 1985.

Katri Lipson

Her debut novel Cosmonaut (Kosmonautti) was shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize in 2008 and won the Helsingin Sanomat Debut Book of the Year Award that same year.

Laila Hirvisaari

Laila Hirvisaari has been granted many respected literature awards but never the most respected, Finlandia Prize.

Monika Fagerholm

The book was nominated for the Finlandia Prize, which is the biggest literary prize in Finland.

Ulla-Lena Lundberg

She has been nominated three times for Finland's top literary award the Finlandia Prize, and in 2012 she won the prize with the Swedish-language novel Is.



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