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Sulava audiocollection in Finnish and in English
“Sulava – Multilingual literature in Finland” published by Suomen PEN in 2021 contains texts by 22 authors in 15 different...
Inger-Mari Aikio
I have worked as a freelance artist since 2008. Before that, I was a journalist for a magazine and on...
Gag Baani
I was forced to leave the country after spending 45 years in a small village ‘Gag’ in the backward part...
Csilla Csépke
Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest,...
Muhaned Durubi
Muhaned Durubi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979) is a visual artist and a poet who lives in Helsinki. In...
Zoila Forss
Zoila Forss-Crespo Moreyra was born in Lima, Peru, on April 18, 1969. In 1995 Forss received her BA in Communications...
Saad Hadi
Saad Hadi is an Iraqi writer, journalist, and visual artist born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1956. He holds a master’s...
Farzaneh Hatami Landi
Farzaneh Hatami Landi (b.1964) is from southern Iran. She came to Finland in 1990 and completed her technology studies at...
Susinukke Kosola
Daniil Kozlov (b. 1991), artist named Susinukke Kosola, is a St. Petersburg-born writer living in Turku and a mixed worker...
Elena Lapina-Balk
Elena Lapina-Balk is a writer who was born in St. Petersburg. Having received a university degree from the Leningrad Institute...
Shashank Mane
Born in Mumbai, India, I have travelled and lived around the world from a young age. Spending years in Geneva,...
Adrian Perera
Adrian Perera, born 1986, is a writer and lives in Turku. In addition to the collection of poems White Monkey...
José Luis Rico
José Luis Rico (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1987) is a poet and translator from Northern Mexico currently living in Finland. Blanco...
Riku Ryynänen
I am a 40 year old cp disabled poet. In my poetry, I try to make otherness visible, my own...
Roxana Sadvokassova
A curious lazy amoeba who’s never quite sure of own shape, size and content. Born in 1992, Kazakhstan. After having...
Helena Sinervo
Helena Sinervo is a writer, poet and translator who lives in Helsinki. She has published 11 books of poems and...
Dodou Touray
I was born in The Gambia in 1966 in Banjul. After undergoing training with a governmental newspaper, I worked as...
Kári Tulinius
Kári Tulinius has published two novels, a poetry collection and a chapbook. He’s written more, but not everything is meant...
Ye Yint Thet Zwe
Ye Yint Thet Zwe (born 1965 in Yangon, Myanmar) is a Burmese poet currently based in Helsinki. He studied Myanmar...
Judyth Hill: Wage peace
Author and active PEN International member Judyth Hill is visiting Finland’s PEN 5-11.5. In addition to his commitment to freedom...