Born 1957 · Finland
Finlandia 2012 · Shortlist
Pirjo Hassinen · 55 when first published
Novel · 318 pages · Politics, Family
AI-generated summary:Neighbours Pirjo, fifty, and Perttu, a bouncer twenty years younger, share easy evenings over wine, until Perttu falls in with Popula, a right-wing populist party.
Finlandia 2004 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The King's Park”
Pirjo Hassinen · 47 when first published
Novel · 380 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Ari, a businessman in his forties paralysed in an accident, lives in a luxury care home beside a park; when he sees that his wife has fallen in love, he starts arranging other people's lives.
Finlandia 2002 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Christmas Wife”
Pirjo Hassinen · 45 when first published
Novel · 333 pages · Family, Crime
AI-generated summary:In 2002 the police reopen the case of Rebekka, who vanished more than twenty years earlier, when her thirteen-year-old daughter Raakel was found wandering alone at an airport.