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Hanna-Riikka Kuisma

Born 1978 · Finland

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Finlandia 2024 · Shortlist

    Korvaushoito

    Title translated by AI:“Substitution Therapy”

    Hanna-Riikka Kuisma · 46 when first published

    Novel · 347 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Years after quitting drugs, a man learns something new about his younger sister, missing for decades, and the news threatens to pull him back into the addicts' world of his 1990s hometown.

  • No English yet

    Finlandia 2019 · Shortlist

    Kerrostalo

    Title translated by AI:“The Apartment Block”

    Hanna-Riikka Kuisma · 41 when first published

    Novel · 332 pages

    AI-generated summary:Several voices tell of life among the poor and the left-behind in a suburb of concrete apartment blocks, where lost men and tough, independent women get by in everyday hardship.