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Magdalena Hai’s The Horned God sold to Estonia and Sweden
And the other translation rights sold at the end of February and the beginning of March!
28.02.
Hena Com has bought the […]
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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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Fiction Editors’ Week begins!
FILI is organizing an Editors’ Week visit for eight international publishers from 12-15 February. The publishers coming to Helsinki are: […]
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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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Finnish literary exports at all-time high
Finland’s literary exports grew by five percent last year. Revenue from Finnish literary exports rose to an all-time high of […]
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The nominees for the Torch-Bearer Prize have been announced!
The prize has been established to promote Finnish book exports. FILI will offer the winner an export promotion programme. The […]
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Applications for translator residencies open at the end of October
The 2024 residency application period starts 30.10. and ends 12.11.2023. Foreign translators of Finnish literature can apply for a three-week […]
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The much-anticipated Finnish Literature Translators Fellowship starts on 25 October
This autumn, more than 60 foreign translators of Finnish literature will participate in FILI events organised in conjunction with the […]
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It’s Finland again! Finnish literature in the spotlight across German-speaking Europe in 2024
It’s Finland again! Finnish literature in German-speaking Europe in 2024 is a project jointly launched by FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange, […]
Read more about It’s Finland again! Finnish literature in the spotlight across German-speaking Europe in 2024Terra Publica bought the Lithuanian rights for Eva Frantz’s The Mystery of Raspberry Hill (Hallonbacken, Schildts & Söderströms)
And other rights sold at the end of August
16.8
Polirom bought the Romanian rights for Mika Waltari’s A Stranger Came to […]
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The summer course for beginning literary translators begins!
A great start to the autumn season: the summer course for beginning literary translators organized for the 12th time is […]
Read more about The summer course for beginning literary translators begins!The Old Lion Publishing House bought the Ukrainian rights for Magdalena Hai’s The Little Shop of Nightmares series
And other rights sold in July / August
21.7.2023
Mixtvision pre-empted the German rights for Arttu Unkari’s Dad Man series (Isämies, Otava) […]
Read more about The Old Lion Publishing House bought the Ukrainian rights for Magdalena Hai’s The Little Shop of Nightmares seriesDwie Siostry bought the Polish rights for Sofia & Amanda Chanfreau’s A Giraffe’s Heart Is Unbelievably Large
And other rights sold in July
4.7
Modtryk bought the Danish rights for Arttu Tuominen’s Shamed (Häväistyt, WSOY), and also for the […]
Read more about Dwie Siostry bought the Polish rights for Sofia & Amanda Chanfreau’s A Giraffe’s Heart Is Unbelievably LargeOld Lion Publishing House bought the Ukrainian rights for Maria Turtschaninoff’s Inherited Land
And other rights sold just before the summer holidays!
27.6.
Psichogios Publications bought the Greek rights for Nina Pirhonen’s Leo the Lion […]
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