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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...

/ 23 December 2023

Inger-Mari Aikio

I have worked as a freelance artist since 2008. Before that, I was a journalist for a magazine and on...

/ 10 November 2023

Gag Baani

I was forced to leave the country after spending 45 years in a small village ‘Gag’ in the backward part...

/ 10 November 2023

Csilla Csépke

Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest,...

/ 10 November 2023

Muhaned Durubi

Muhaned Durubi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979) is a visual artist and a poet who lives in Helsinki. In...

/ 10 November 2023

Zoila Forss

Zoila Forss-Crespo Moreyra was born in Lima, Peru, on April 18, 1969. In 1995 Forss received her BA in Communications...

/ 10 November 2023

Saad Hadi

Saad Hadi is an Iraqi writer, journalist, and visual artist born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1956. He holds a master’s...

/ 10 November 2023

Farzaneh Hatami Landi

Farzaneh Hatami Landi (b.1964) is from southern Iran. She came to Finland in 1990 and completed her technology studies at...

/ 10 November 2023

Susinukke Kosola

Daniil Kozlov (b. 1991), artist named Susinukke Kosola, is a St. Petersburg-born writer living in Turku and a mixed worker...

/ 10 November 2023

Elena Lapina-Balk

Elena Lapina-Balk is a writer who was born in St. Petersburg. Having received a university degree from the Leningrad Institute...

/ 10 November 2023

Shashank Mane

Born in Mumbai, India, I have travelled and lived around the world from a young age. Spending years in Geneva,...

/ 10 November 2023

Adrian Perera

Adrian Perera, born 1986, is a writer and lives in Turku. In addition to the collection of poems White Monkey...

/ 10 November 2023

José Luis Rico

José Luis Rico (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1987) is a poet and translator from Northern Mexico currently living in Finland. Blanco...

/ 10 November 2023

Riku Ryynänen

I am a 40 year old cp disabled poet. In my poetry, I try to make otherness visible, my own...

/ 10 November 2023

Roxana Sadvokassova

A curious lazy amoeba who’s never quite sure of own shape, size and content. Born in 1992, Kazakhstan. After having...

/ 10 November 2023

Helena Sinervo

Helena Sinervo is a writer, poet and translator who lives in Helsinki. She has published 11 books of poems and...

/ 10 November 2023

Dodou Touray

I was born in The Gambia in 1966 in Banjul. After undergoing training with a governmental newspaper, I worked as...

/ 10 November 2023

Kári Tulinius

Kári Tulinius has published two novels, a poetry collection and a chapbook. He’s written more, but not everything is meant...

/ 10 November 2023

Ye Yint Thet Zwe

Ye Yint Thet Zwe (born 1965 in Yangon, Myanmar) is a Burmese poet currently based in Helsinki. He studied Myanmar...

/ 10 November 2023
Judyth Hill

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...

/ 6 May 2022