About the Finnish Literature Society (SKS)
The Finnish Literature Society (SKS) promotes the advancement of a diverse Finnish culture. The work of SKS is based on an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the roots of the culture and the contemporary profile of a multicultural and multilingual Finland.
SKS
- is a learned society and non-governmental organization founded in 1831
- stores, preserves and studies Finnish culture
- is Finland's largest scholarly and non-fiction publisher in the field of the humanities
- provides grants for the export of Finnish literature
- conveys information about oral and written Finnish cultures and their study.
At SKS Finnish oral culture was modified by literary means, and Finnish was developed as a language of the civilized world.
The Finnish word kirjallisuus (literature) was devised for the name of the Finnish Literature Society in 1831.
