Lit in Translation

Marjo Niemi

Born 1978 · Finland

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Finlandia 2025 · Shortlist

    Pienen budjetin sotaelokuva

    Title translated by AI:“A Low-Budget War Film”

    Marjo Niemi · 47 when first published

    Novel · 244 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:A narrator returns to a dwindling factory town of her childhood, where her parents are gone and her brother has vanished, yet someone or something keeps watch over her in the old house.

  • No English yet

    Finlandia 2021 · Shortlist

    Kuuleminen

    Title translated by AI:“The Hearing”

    Marjo Niemi · 43 when first published

    Novel · 223 pages

    AI-generated summary:An ordinary, comfortable middle-class narrator writes to a lover, a father, a creditor and a stranger, pleading and confessing in an effort to be seen and heard.