Born 1964 · Finland
Finlandia 2023 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“36 Urns”
Sirpa Kähkönen · 59 when first published
Novel · 267 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:After her mother dies in 2022, a writer turns to her mother's diaries to retell the life of an athletic, gifted girl of the 1950s whose path changed completely after a traffic accident at sixteen.
Finlandia 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Summer of the Tanks”
Sirpa Kähkönen · 52 when first published
Novel · 412 pages · Historical, Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:In August 1968 an architect returns to his changing hometown of Kuopio and realises he has been lied to for years about what happened in the spring of 1945.
Finlandia 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Granite Man”
Sirpa Kähkönen · 50 when first published
Novel · 334 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:In 1922 a young Finnish couple, Klara and Ilja, shed everything, even their names, and set off on skis for Petrograd, six hundred kilometres away, eager to help create a fair and free society.
Finlandia 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Sheet Wings”
Sirpa Kähkönen · 43 when first published
Novel · 398 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:Kuopio, 1 July 1941, the only day the town is bombed in the Continuation War. On a sweltering morning a dancer arrives with her small daughter, a foster boy plans to run away, and the townspeople wait for news of their men.