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Editorial

This 'n' that
Maria Antas on new short stories by Susanne Ringell; Kari Sallamaa on new poems by Olli Heikkonen; Nina Paavolainen on the Hawaii marathon; Books from Finland news; Kalle Päätalo and Tuomas Anhava in memoriam

Susanne Ringell
A dictionary of human destinies
Short prose from Av blygsel blev Adele fet ('It was embarrassment that made Adele fat', Söderströms, 2000), translated by Silvester Mazzarella
Thumbnail sketches of human nature by Susanne Ringell (born 1955)

Olli Heikkonen
Green gold, black gold
Poems from Jakutian aurinko ('The sun of Yakutia', Tammi, 2000), translated by Anselm Hollo
Olli Heikkonen (born 1965) embarks on a voyage of the imagination across a Russia he has never seen

Kristina Carlson
Tiger in the grass
Extracts from the novel Maan ääreen ('To the end of the earth', Otava, 1999), translated by Hildi Hawkins
This Finlandia Prize-winning novel by Kristina Carlson is set in 19th-century Siberia. As well as the story of the young Finnish gold-prospector Lennart Falk, it is a crime novel. But can the reader trust the tellers of the tale?
Interview by Hildi Hawkins and Soila Lehtonen

Paradises lost
Photographs from Lumous. Maisemakuvia suomalaisen elokuvan kultakaudelta ('Enchantment. Landscape photographs from the golden age of Finnish film', Finnish Literature Society, 2000), edited by Kai Vase
Stills from early Finnish cinema convey an idyllic world of lake vistas where it is always summer.
Extracts from an essay by Sakari Toiviainen, translated by Jüri Kokkonen

Ilkka Tuomi
Espoo – Silicon Valley of Finland?
Extracts from an essay from Espoo: Totuus Suomesta ('Espoo: the truth about Finland', Tammi, 2000), edited by Tuomas Nevanlinna & Jukka Relander
The city of Espoo, ten minutes' bus ride from Helsinki, is the home of many of Finland's high-tech companies; it has more than 200,000 inhabitants, but little identity. Ilkka Tuomi compares Espoo to California's Silicon Valley.
Introduction by Tuomas Nevanlinna & Jukka Relander

Pekka Lähteenkorva & Jussi Pekkarinen
Dear Mr Presitent!
Extracts and photographs from Kirjeitä myllärille 1956–1981 ('Letters to the miller 1956–1981'), translated by Hildi Hawkins
President Urho Kekkonen made skilful use of his personal letters to ordinary citizens to burnish his image as a man of the people. Women were particularly keen correspondents.
Introduction by Jyrki Räikkä

Kari Enqvist
Love and the indifferent universe
Extracts from an essay from the collection Valo ja varjo ('Light and shade', WSOY, 2000), translated by Hildi Hawkins
The particle physicist and essayist Kari Enqvist makes a train journey in the company of Philip Larkin's poems of the 1950s

Reviews

Kalevi Rikkinen
Map-man
Terra Cognita. Maailma tulee tunnetuksi. Kännedomen om världen ökar. Discovering the world, edited by Leena Pärssinen

Hildi Hawkins
The master and the myth
Tapio Wirkkala Ajattelevat kädet / Tapio Wirkkala – Eye, Hand and Thought, edited by Marianne Aav

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Letter from Lapland
Snow, books and chocolate: the essential ingredients of a holiday north of the Arctic Circle, according to Soila Lehtonen
 
 
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