WJaana Susanna Emilia Alakoski Söderlund, née Alakoski, is a Swedish-Finnish author, Novelist and lecturer. She won the August Prize in 2006 for the novel Svinalängorna. Svinalängorna was filmed in 2010 as Beyond. She researches gender issues and works as a social worker.
WTuuve Aro is a Finnish author, who was born and lives in Helsinki. Alongside her work as a writer, she works as a film critic and has also done some film producing. Her first book appeared in 1999, and she has published a total of ten fiction books, five of which are short story collections, three novels and two children's novels. Her debut novel Karmiina (2004) and collections of short stories have been translated into German.
WEeva-Kaarina Aronen was a Finnish author and journalist. Her novels were nominated for the Runeberg Prize and the Finlandia Prize.
WKristina Carlson, also known by her pen name Mari Lampinen, is a Finnish novelist, poet and writer.
WAnna-Leena Härkönen is a Finnish writer and actress.
WLaila Ellen Kaarina Hirvisaari is a Finnish author and writer. By 2008, over four million copies of her works had been sold.
WKari Hotakainen is a Finnish writer. Hotakainen started his writing career as a reporter in Pori. In 1986, he moved to Helsinki. He became a full-time writer in 1996. He has two children with his wife, sound technician Tarja Laaksonen, whom he married in 1983. He has also worked as a copywriter and as a columnist for the Helsingin Sanomat.
WRisto Isomäki is a Finnish author of science fiction books. His 2005 novel The Sands of Sarasvati was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won the Tähtivaeltaja Award in 2006. Two of his novels, The Sands of Sarasvati and Lithium-6 have been published in English, along with a graphic novel adaptation of The Sands of Sarasvati.
WSirpa Kähkönen is a Finnish novelist and translator. Initially writing for young adults, she gained popularity in Finland with her Kuopio series of historical novels.
WKatja Maaria Kettu is a Finnish contemporary writer and film producer. She debuted in 2005 with the novel Surujenkerääjä. The book was nominated for the Helsingin-Sanomat literature prize as best debut novel. Her breakthrough as writer succeeded with The Midwife (Kätilö). In the book Kettu describes the love between a Finnish midwife and a German officer during the Second World War. She shows in brutal scenes of birth, abortion and murder how people are able to suffer for love. The story is inspired by the life of Kettu's grandparents.
WLeena Lander is a Finnish author. She grew up in Turku, in a boys' home that her father ran. In 1992, she won the Thanks for the Book Award for Tummien perhosten koti, which was made into a successful Finnish film in 2008. Her work is known for its concern with the treatment of children and tensions involving authority and conscience. She also won the Pro Finlandia medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland in 2000.
WTorsti Lehtinen, Finnish writer and philosopher, was born in Helsinki in 1942. He studied philosophy, theology and literature at the University of Helsinki.
WZinaida Lindén is a Russian-born Finnish prose writer, publicist, author of short stories and several novels. She writes in Swedish and Russian. She was a laureate of the Runeberg Prize (2005).
WMinna-Liisa Gabriela Lindgren is a Finnish writer and journalist who is a best-selling Crime fiction novelist.
WLaura Valpuri Lindstedt is a Finnish novelist. Her debut novel, Scissors, which was published in 2007, was nominated for the Finlandia Prize, the top literary prize in Finland. Lindstedt's second novel, Oneiron, which took 8 years to write, earned her the Finlandia Prize in 2015. Lindstedt is one of Finland's leading internationally known writers.
WSofi Oksanen is a Finnish writer and playwright. Oksanen has published five novels, of which Purge has gained the widest recognition. She has received several international and domestic awards for her literary work. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than two million copies.
WArto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
WMikko Pietari Porvali is a Finnish author, historian, lawyer and a Detective Chief Inspector of the Finnish Police.
WHannu Rajaniemi is a Finnish author of science fiction and fantasy, who writes in both English and Finnish. He lives in Oakland, California, and was a founding director of a commercial research organisation ThinkTank Maths.
WMatti Rönkä is a Finnish TV journalist and novelist. He received the Glass Key award in 2007 for the crime novel Ystävät kaukana and the Deutscher Krimi Preis third prize in 2008 for the German translation of his novel Tappajan näköinen mies (2002). He has been the anchor of the daily news program 20:30 National Report since 2003 on Yle, thus inheriting the nickname "Suomen ääni" from the program's old host Arvi Lind.
WKauko Röyhkä,, is a Finnish rock musician and author. Since the early 1980s he has been a popular rock artist in Finland known especially as a strong lyricist.
WSalla Simukka is a best-selling Finnish novelist, translator and literary critic, and winner of the Topelius Prize 2013 and the Finland Prize 2013. She is known for her young adult series The Snow White Trilogy, which was originally published in Finnish as the Lumikki Andersson trilogy.
WAila Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere. Professionally she worked in the advertising business, rising to the level of marketing designer.
WJarkko Olavi Tontti is a Finnish novelist, poet, essayist and lawyer. He is member of PEN International Executive Board and former president of Finnish PEN.
WAntti Elias Tuuri is a Finnish writer, known for his works dealing with Southern Ostrobothnia.
WKaari Marjatta Utrio is a Finnish writer. She has written over 35 historical novels and 13 non-fiction books on historical topics. She is a historian, holding the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Helsinki, and has returned from the position of Professor in service of the Finnish State Commission of Fine Arts.
WRauha S. Virtanen was a Finnish author who wrote youth literature as well as plays. Virtanen received numerous literary awards, including the Topelius Prize in 1971, the State Prize for Youth Literature in 1971, and the Tirlittan Prize of the Finnish Writers' Union in 2003.
WJuha Tapio Vuorinen is a Finnish writer, columnist and radio personality. He is best known for his five-volume book series The Hangover Diaries, particularly the first volume Totally Smashed!. Since 1983, Vuorinen had been working as a reporter for radio and television, a director, a screenwriter and a producer.