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New deal for Iida Turpeinen’s Beasts of the Sea

And more sold rights from the past weeks!

26.7.

Open Books has bought the Korean rights to Iida Turpeinen’s Beasts of the […]

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The Prize for Contemporary Literatures in Translation to Pajtim Statovci and Stefan Moster

Prestigious The Prize for Contemporary Literatures in Translation/Internationaler Literaturpreis 2024 – award in Germany has just been awarded to the […]

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Jukka M. Heikkilä’s Antigonos, Son of the Gods travels to Croatia!

Naklada Ljevak has bought the Croatian rights to Jukka M. Heikkilä’s Antigonos, Son of the Gods (Antigonos, jumalten poika, Karisto) […]

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The staff of FILI will be on vacation from 4 July to 7 August

The FILI office will be closed during this time.We would like to thank everyone for a great spring season and […]

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The publication 30 or So Books from Finland in German 2025 has been launched

During the It’s Finland Again! project, we are producing separate publications that feature translations of Finnish literature published in German-speaking […]

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A new deal for Miila Westin’s The Mythicals-series

And other sold rights from mid-June!

19.6.

Straarup has bought the Danish rights to the first two parts in Miila Westin’s The […]

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The results of our spring application round are online

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Mikaela Wickström has started as FILI’s new programme manager

Mikaela Wickström has started as FILI’s new programme manager responsible for grant programmes and translator training. We’re so pleased to […]

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100 or So Books from Finland 2024

The first book recommendations of the 100 or So Books from Finland 2024 can now be found here! There […]

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FILI application round closes on 1 May

Please note, that FILI is closed on 1 May and there is no online help available then. The results will […]

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Apply for translation and printing grant

There is still time to apply for translation and printing grant for the translation of Finnish literature into other languages! […]

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The grant decisions for the first application round

The grant decisions for the first application round of 2024 can be found here.

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New trainee at FILI

Christoph Scheike has started working as an intern at FILI. He is a master’s student of Nordic literary and cultural […]

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Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators to Maima Grīnberga

Grinberga has translated an unparalleled 100 books into Latvian

This year, the recipient of the Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators […]

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30 or So Books from Finland in German – read now!

Our new publication is here! You can read about the more than 30 translated books being published this year […]

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Invite a Finnish author to visit!

More than 30 Finnish books will be published in German this year. With the It’s Finland Again! project, you can […]

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FILI’s mentoring programme for translators starts on 17 January

The application period for the 2024 translators’ mentoring programme starts on 17 January and ends on 7 February. You can […]

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We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Our office is closed during the Christmas holidays 23.12.2023-8.1.2024.

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The translation and printing grants have been awarded

The decisions on the autumn’s last application round for translation and printing grants have been announced. Funding was granted to […]

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Katja Raunio’s novel Last Times won the 2023 Torch-Bearer Prize

Katja Raunio’s novel Last Times (Teos, 2023) won the 2023 Torch-Bearer Prize, congratulations Katja!

The 5000 euro prize was awarded to […]

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