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• PoetryAndelige och werldslige dikterJacob Frese · 1726not translated into EnglishIn Sweden at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a chancery clerk kept in bed by illness channels his lament into the regulated forms of religious poetry.Literature
• PoetrySång öfver grefve Gustaf Philip CreutzFrans Michael Franzén · 1797not translated into EnglishAt the end of the eighteenth century, a young academic from Åbo sends to a poetry competition a verse eulogy that follows none of the rules defended there.Literature
• EpicKalevalaElias Lönnrot · 1849In the middle of the nineteenth century, a district doctor brings back from his rounds in the eastern countryside the songs that will give a grand duchy with no written past a national antiquity.Literature
• PoetryThe Tales of Ensign StålFänrik Ståls sägnerJohan Ludvig Runeberg · 1860Half a century after the war that transferred the country from Sweden to Russia, a cycle of poems gives the grand duchy a gallery of ordinary heroes in whom to recognise itself.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreDaniel HjortJosef Julius Wecksell · 1862not translated into EnglishIn the early 1860s, a twenty-four-year-old student brings a sixteenth-century betrayal to the stage and places in it the question of whom one owes loyalty to.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Surgeon's StoriesFältskärns berättelserZacharias Topelius · 1867In the middle of the nineteenth century, a grand duchy in search of its past has it told to it as a serial, week after week, by a fictional old soldier.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelSeven BrothersSeitsemän veljestäAleksis Kivi · 1870In a grand duchy where learned life speaks Swedish, a novel in Finnish gives a family of peasant brothers their own language, funny and rough.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelBarndomsvännerKarl August Tavaststjerna · 1886not translated into EnglishIn Finland in the 1880s, a young man from the provinces looks for his place between the capital, the ties of his youth and the call of foreign lands.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe Parson's FamilyPapin perheMinna Canth · 1891At the end of the nineteenth century, a pastor's family is torn apart over what the new generation has the right to think and to become.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesLapsiaTeuvo Pakkala · 1895not translated into EnglishAt the end of the nineteenth century, a writer looks at the children of a poor suburb as whole persons, with their fears and their prides.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Song of the Blood-Red FlowerLaulu tulipunaisesta kukastaJohannes Linnankoski · 1905At the beginning of the twentieth century, a novel takes up the myth of Don Juan and transposes it to the log-driving rivers of rural Finland.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelJuhaJuhani Aho · 1911At the beginning of the twentieth century, a great novelist returns to the forest and to the old motif of the deceived husband, in a country split between two empires.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryAftnar i TavastlandBertel Gripenberg · 1911not translated into EnglishIn the early 1910s, a city poet withdraws far from the salons and makes the lakes and forests the landscape of his meditation.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryWhitsongsHelkavirsiäEino Leino · 1916At the beginning of the century, a poet borrows from old oral poetry its form and tone to house figures who defy the gods, death and their own people.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryDikterEdith Södergran · 1916not translated into EnglishOn the eve of the Russian Revolution, a young woman isolated on the border publishes free verse that nothing in her language had foreshadowed.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesHemkomsten och andra novellerRunar Schildt · 1919not translated into EnglishIn the aftermath of the fighting of 1918, a prose writer from the capital looks at the defeated of the countryside, without always understanding what made them rise up.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMeek HeritageHurskas kurjuusFrans Emil Sillanpää · 1919A year after the civil war, a country still split in two is offered the complete life of one of the defeated, told without plea or indictment.Literature
• NovelPutkinotkoJoel Lehtonen · 1920not translated into EnglishIn the aftermath of the civil war, a writer disillusioned with all his former enthusiasms shuts an entire country into a single summer day in the countryside.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaNummisuutaritErkki Karu · 1923In 1923, the most frequently performed comedy of the Finnish stage moves to the screen and gives the country's young cinema a success.Cinema
• NovelGreeta ja hänen HerransaArvid Järnefelt · 1925not translated into EnglishIn the twenties, a Tolstoyan writer returns to the novel to put a peasant family to the test of what it believes to be just.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaNoidan kirotTeuvo Puro · 1927In the remote reaches of Lapland, an old curse and very human violence fall upon a newly married couple.Cinema
• NarrativeThe Wolf's BrideSudenmorsianAino Kallas · 1928In the seventeenth century, on a Baltic island where Christianity has not yet driven out the old beliefs, a woman leads two lives and the village eventually notices.Literature
• PoetryUni ja kuolemaUuno Kailas · 1931not translated into EnglishAt the beginning of the thirties, a poet of thirty, already stricken by illness, gathers ten years of writing into a single book.Literature
• NovelJanne KubikElmer Diktonius · 1932not translated into EnglishIn the thirties, a modernist poet takes a man from the defeated camp of 1918 and cuts him out as one shapes a wooden plank, rounding off nothing.Literature
• NovelTehtaan varjossaToivo Pekkanen · 1932not translated into EnglishIn a factory town of the twenties, a teenager who has worked since childhood discovers books and wonders what he has the right to want.Literature
• CinemaKuisma ja HelinäKalle Kaarna · 1932A Russian troop quartered with Finnish peasants, and the power it exercises outside shifting into the house itself.Cinema
• PoetrySolgröntGunnar Björling · 1933not translated into EnglishIn the early thirties, a poet whom the critics consider mad finds in a disparate collection the manner that will be his own.Literature
• NovelAlastalon salissaVolter Kilpi · 1933not translated into EnglishIn a maritime parish of western Finland, six hours of a business meeting between ship owners fill nine hundred pages, and nothing in it is said quickly.Literature
• PoetryPaluuKatri Vala · 1934not translated into EnglishIn the mid-thirties, a country schoolteacher who has been writing in free verse for ten years turns her poetry towards what she sees coming.Literature
• CinemaSiltalan pehtooriRisto Orko · 1934In 1934, a manor-house romance, with its songs and its scenes of peasant comedy, draws an audience that Finnish cinema had never had.Cinema
• TheatreNiskavuoren naisetHella Wuolijoki · 1936not translated into EnglishOn a farm in Häme in the thirties, the land weighs more than the people, and it is the women who decide how far it goes.Literature
• NovelKorstågetTito Colliander · 1937not translated into EnglishIn the thirties, a young writer steeped in Dostoevsky turns into narrative a conversion to faith that he was experiencing at the same time.Literature
• CinemaNiskavuoren naisetValentin Vaala · 1938In 1938, a farm in Häme and three women who decide what a man has the right to want.Cinema
• CinemaRykmentin murheenkryyniToivo Särkkä · 1938In 1938, the barracks becomes a comedy setting, and Finnish cinema finds a lasting seam there.Cinema
• PoetryRunotKaarlo Sarkia · 1944not translated into EnglishIn the thirties and forties, a poet with neither home nor trade, whom tuberculosis sends from sanatorium to rented room, carves verses of extreme regularity.Literature
• PoetryPilvetElvi Sinervo · 1944not translated into EnglishDuring the war years, a woman imprisoned for her opinions writes in her cell the poems that her country will read as soon as she gets out.Literature
• NovelThe EgyptianSinuhe egyptiläinenMika Waltari · 1945At the end of the war, a Nordic novelist has a physician of ancient Egypt tell of his life in the time of the heretic pharaoh.Literature
• DiarySynkkä yksinpuheluOlavi Paavolainen · 1946not translated into EnglishA man charged with explaining the war to his country keeps, at the same time and for himself alone, a record of what he thinks of it.Literature
• NovelFinn Family MoomintrollTrollkarlens hattTove Jansson · 1948In the aftermath of the war, a painter from Helsinki settles her creatures in their valley for good.Literature
• PoetryUr svalans loggbokPeter Sandelin · 1951not translated into EnglishIn the early fifties, a very young man who will become a painter publishes a first book in which the poem takes up only a few lines.Literature
• CinemaThe White ReindeerValkoinen peuraErik Blomberg · 1952In the Lapland of the reindeer herders, a woman driven to despair by solitude pays dearly for what she asks of a sorcerer.Cinema
• NovelThe Enchanted WayDen förtrollade vägenOscar Parland · 1953Around 1917, on the Karelian Isthmus, a very young boy looks out on a world of villas and eccentric relatives that history will erase.Literature
• NovelThe Unknown SoldierTuntematon sotilasVäinö Linna · 1954Ten years after the fighting, a spinning-mill worker who took part in it behind a machine gun writes what his country had not yet read about its own soldiers.Literature
• CinemaThe Unknown SoldierTuntematon sotilasEdvin Laine · 1955In 1955, ten years after the peace, the country has its war told to it by soldiers who are anything but heroic.Cinema
• NovelNoitaympyräPentti Haanpää · 1956not translated into EnglishIn northern Finland during the years of the crisis, a man who does not want to belong to anyone looks for where such a man can live.Literature
• PoetryTämä matkaEeva-Liisa Manner · 1956not translated into EnglishIn the mid-fifties, a book of free verse opens to Finnish poetry a path it had not taken.Literature
• NovelThe Manila RopeManillaköysiVeijo Meri · 1957In the trains of an army at war, the conflict becomes no more than a series of absurd stories that men tell one another to pass the time.Literature
• PoetryThe Winter PalaceTalvipalatsiPaavo Haavikko · 1959At the end of the fifties, a twenty-eight-year-old man gives the modernism of his language the book it was waiting for.Literature
• CinemaInspector Palmu's MistakeKomisario Palmun erehdysMatti Kassila · 1960In 1960, a novel's inspector who had become a legend investigates on screen a pre-war case among Helsinki's polite society.Cinema
• NovelJuhannustanssitHannu Salama · 1964not translated into EnglishIn the mid-sixties, a young writer from the working-class world shows the national summer festival as it actually takes place.Literature
• NarrativeMänniskan som skalvChrister Kihlman · 1971not translated into EnglishIn the early seventies, a writer from the Swedish-speaking bourgeoisie says in his own name what his milieu keeps silent.Literature
• CinemaEight Deadly ShotsKahdeksan surmanluotiaMikko Niskanen · 1972In the early seventies, a filmmaker from the countryside looks for what could have led a small farmer to tragedy.Cinema
• PoetryHerdedikterLars Huldén · 1973not translated into EnglishIn the seventies, a university scholar from Helsinki applies the pastoral form of the Ancients to the world of his own time.Literature
• NarrativeSnobs' IslandBrändövägen 8, Brändö, tel. 35Henrik Tikkanen · 1975In 1975, a newspaper cartoonist gives the address of his childhood as the title of the book in which he settles scores with the milieu that made him.Literature
• NovelThe Year of the HareJäniksen vuosiArto Paasilinna · 1975A journalist from Helsinki gives up his job, his household and his city to follow a wounded hare across Finland.Literature
• CinemaThe Year of the HareJäniksen vuosiRisto Jarva · 1977At the end of the seventies, a city man turns his back on the consumer society to follow a hare into the forest.Cinema
• PoetryThe Love Story of the CenturyÅrhundradets kärlekssagaMärta Tikkanen · 1978At the end of the seventies, a woman replies in verse to the book in which her writer husband had told the story of their marriage.Literature
• NovelFar och son: en komediJörn Donner · 1984not translated into EnglishAround 1960, a young Swedish-speaking bourgeois man fails in his marriage and searches for a father figure.Literature
• CinemaThe Match Factory GirlTulitikkutehtaan tyttöAki Kaurismäki · 1990In the Helsinki of the eighties, a factory worker whom nobody notices endures humiliation after humiliation, at home as elsewhere.Cinema
• CinemaZombie and the Ghost TrainZombie ja kummitusjunaMika Kaurismäki · 1991In the late eighties, a Finnish musician who is getting nowhere looks for his place between the bottle and the stage.Cinema
• NovelUrwindBo Carpelan · 1993In the early nineties, a poet of nearly seventy makes an absence the subject of an epistolary novel.Literature
• NovelYstävän muotokuvaPentti Holappa · 1998not translated into EnglishAt the end of the century, a seventy-year-old poet at last writes the novel of what his youth had had to hide.Literature

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