Iida Turpeinen presents her captivating novel Beasts of the Sea (Elolliset) and the the poignant story of Steller’s sea cow at the Finnish Museum of Natural History.
This nature-focused book video series is produced by FILI, Visit Finland, and the ”It’s Finland Again!” project. 💙🤍

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Part II * Iida Turpeinen’s award-winning novel Beasts of the Sea (Elolliset) is a powerful example of writing that deeply, movingly, and grippingly explores the balance between humans and nature. In a nature-focused video series produced by FILI, Visit Finland, and It’s Finland Again!, Turpeinen takes us to Harakka Island and the Nature Centre, a place she has cherished since childhood and where she partially wrote the story of the extinct Steller’s sea cow. This remarkable novel has recently been published in German by S. Fischer, with a brilliant translation by Maximilian Murmann.
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Video: Juho Sallinen • Music: Jarmo Herkman: Enchantment/Phasma Music

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Iida Turpeinen takes us on a captivating journey to the seaside of Harakka Island, where she partially wrote her remarkable novel, Beasts of the Sea (Elolliset). The book delves into significant themes, such as the extinction of the Steller’s sea cow—a species driven to extinction in just 27 years—and the broader issue of nature’s vanishing wonders, which affects us all. This powerful European novel has already been sold in nearly 30 countries. Check out the video where Iida herself talks about her wonderful novel, and be sure to give it a read! ❤️

Iida Turpeinen’s novel Das Wesen des Lebens (Elolliset, S&S, Helsinki Literary Agency) has just been published in German by S. Fischer and translated by Maximilian Murmann.

This nature-focused book video series is produced by FILI, Visit Finland, and It’s Finland Again! project focusing on German-speaking Europe.
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Video: Juho Sallinen * Interview: Hannele Jyrkkä * Music: Enchantment by Jarmo Herkman/Phasma Music * Video filmed in the Harakka Island

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Part III • ”People often say that a writer must find their own voice. I’ve always thought it’s the opposite: a writer should get rid of their own voice. I’ve coined this process as “the ghost’s speech”—the moment when someone else begins to speak through you.” ❤️
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In a nature-focused book video series produced by FILI, Visit Finland, and It’s Finland Again!, Matias Riikonen takes us into the forest where his novel Matara could have unfolded. This remarkable novel has just been published in German by Carl Rauch Verlag, translated by Maximilian Murmann. ❤️
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Video: Juho Sallinen • music: Jarmo Herkman: Enchantment/Phasma Music

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Part II  * Matias Riikonen’s award-winning novel Matara is a striking example of how seriously one can take play. ❤️
In a nature-focused book video series produced by FILI, Visit Finland, and It’s Finland Again!, Riikonen brings us to the forest where the power games of the Matara boys could have unfolded. This remarkable novel has just been published in German by Carl Rauch Verlag, translated by Maximilian Murmann.
 
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“If you can describe the realms of your childhood, you will have drawn the boundaries of worlds, traveling from life to death and back again. It’s staggering,” says Matias Riikonen about his award-winning novel Matara, now translated into German. This video takes us into a Finnish forest reminiscent of the one in Matara. Although this isn’t the exact forest where the author once played power games with other boys and learned about life, it still inspired Riikonen as he wrote his acclaimed novel, decades after those unforgettable childhood adventures.
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Matias Riikonen: Matara (Teos, Helsinki Literary Agency) • The German edition published by Karl Rauch Verlag • German translation of the novel: Maximilian Murmann
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Video filmed in the Seurasaari forests, Helsinki * production: FILI & Visit Finland • concept: FILI & Juho Sallinen • video: Juho Sallinen • interview: Hannele Jyrkkä • music: Jarmo Herkman: ”Enchantment”, produced by Phasma Music
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