Born 1954 · Finland
Finlandia 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Stalker Years”
Olli Jalonen · 68 when first published
Novel · 509 pages · Politics, Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1974 a Tampere university student is secretly recruited to inform on old school friends, their private lives and their politics, and the task slowly takes over his own life.
Finlandia 2018 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Celestial Sphere”
Olli Jalonen · 64 when first published
Novel · 461 pages · Historical, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:On Saint Helena in the late 17th century, a boy named Angus trains his eyes by charting the stars at night and dreams of becoming apprentice to the astronomer Edmond Halley in London.
Finlandia 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Men and People”
Olli Jalonen · 60 when first published
Novel · 509 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Seventeen and in his first summer job at a sheet-metal workshop, a young man picks up the rough rules of the older workmen, while his nights bring first encounters with drink, love and sex.
Finlandia 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Fourteen Knots to Greenwich”
Olli Jalonen · 54 when first published
Novel · 381 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Petr Järvi, a Finnish historian of inland waters, is invited by an old Cambridge friend to circle the earth along longitude zero within a year, travelling as people did in Halley's eighteenth century.