Born 1973 · Finland
Finlandia 2024 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Bark”
Tommi Kinnunen · 51 when first published
Novel · 204 pages · War, Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:Three siblings gather in a northern village at the hospital bed of their dying mother Laina, who has never spoken of what happened to her in the war.
Finlandia 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Did Not Say She Regretted It”
Tommi Kinnunen · 47 when first published
Novel · 351 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:In early summer 1945, five Finnish women who had followed the German army leave a prison camp in Norway and set out on foot for home across burned-out Lapland.
Finlandia 2016 · Shortlist
Tommi Kinnunen · 43 when first published
Novel · 364 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:At nine, Helena is taken from her remote village and sent alone to a school for the blind in 1950s Helsinki. Forty years later her nephew Tuomas moves south to university and comes to know his aunt anew.
Finlandia 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Where Four Roads Cross”
Tommi Kinnunen · 41 when first published
Novel · 334 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:In northern Finland, the young village midwife Maria earns respect by seeing women through hard births, while her daughter Lahja, born outside marriage, wants all the things her mother rejected.