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Hannele Jyrkkä appointed as new Communication Manager of FILI
Hannele Jyrkkä was appointed by FILI as the new Communication Manager. Hannele Jyrkkä has worked as a journalist, dance critic […]
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The Spring application round started 1 April
The Spring application round has started and deadline for the applications is 1 May. In the spring round, grants for […]
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Results of our winter application round are online
FILI’s advisory board had its meeting 8 March and the list of awarded grants is now on our website. https://fili.fi/en/grants/past-grants/ […]
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In line with general EU economic and export sanctions, FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange has frozen payments of translation and printing […]
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FILI Book Picks / Spring 2022
We publish small videos presenting our top picks of Finnish literature. This season they are hosted by translator, spoken word […]
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Grants for longer sample translations of non-fiction books
Kirjallisuuden vientikeskus FILIn ja Lauri Jäntin säätiön tuella rahoitetaan kolmivuotinen yhteistyöhanke, jossa tuotetaan agentuurien edustamien tietokirjojen pitkiä, laadukkaita näytekäännöksiä. Tukea voi hakea yleiselle tietokirjallisuudelle ja lasten tietokirjoille, joilla on kansainvälistä potentiaali
Read more about Grants for longer sample translations of non-fiction booksThomas Brevik Kjærstad worked on his first full-length translation during the residency
Thomas Brevik Kjærstad, who lives in Tromsø in northern Norway, arrived in Helsinki via the northern route, by car train […]
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Nil Deniz Cidanlı, who lives in Uganda, is working on several translations of Finnish literature into Turkish: Vuokko Hurme’s Right-Side […]
Read more about Finnish literature under the African sun – Nil Deniz CidanlıMia Spangenberg is translating Pirkko Saisio into English
Another of this spring’s five translators in residence was Mia Spangenberg, who is finalising her translation of Pirkko Saisio’s Red […]
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