Travel to a world like ours, but different. Where you have to work to survive, but if there is the slightest suspicion that you’re not in your right mind, they’ll take you away, isolate you to stop the ‘disease’ spreading,…
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The city of woven streets
Tagged with: Emmi Itäranta, Fantasy, Finnish, Kudottujen kujien kaupunki, The city of woven streets, The Weaver, Translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Naondel
Good things come to those who wait. I’m not the only one who has been waiting for the next volume of the Red Abbey trilogy to be published. Luckily Marja Kyrö’s Finnish translation of Maria Turtschaninoff’s Naondel came out with…
Tagged with: Annie Prime, Fantasy, Finnish, Maria Turtschaninoff, Marja Kyrö, Naondel, Red Abbey Chronicles, Swedish, Tammi, Translation, Ursula le Guin, YA
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery, was the book I read by the Christmas tree this year; next year you could be doing the same. The splendid Pushkin Press has just bought the English rights. The author, the Swedish Finn…
Tagged with: Athos, Cornelia Funke, Fantasy, Fiction, Finlandia Junior 2014, Finnish, German, Goddess, Inkheart, J. R. R. Tolkien, Maresi, Maria Turtschaninoff, Marja Kyrö, Millenium trilogy, Pushkin Press, Stieg Larsson, Swedish, Translation, YA
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Posted in books
as red as blood
In preparation for my next Finnish exam, I’ve been devouring teen literature; the action is usually breathless enough to compensate for my slower reading pace. But when I went to take Ilkka Auer’s Ice-Witch ones back and get As Red…
Tagged with: As Red As Blood, books, Fantasy, Finnish, Ilkka Auer, Literature, Owen Witesman, Salla Simukka, Snow White, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
more than moomins: illustration and translation
Tove Jansson would be 99 today. I began learning Finnish by reading the Moomin comic strip, which made Tove Jansson’s name around the world. Started in the London Evening News in 1954, the complete collection is still being published in Finnish. Tove’s 1960s…
Tagged with: Alice in Wonderland, Fantasy, Finnish, Hobbit, Illustration, Moomins, Tenniel, Tolkien, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in Illustration, translation
Posted in Illustration, translation
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