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Hello! I am in Scotland, but currently working in Finland. Are there any books to start off with you would recommend? I like fantasy :)
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Fiona
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Jun 23, 2018 04:00PM

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Hello and welcome!
Unfortunately I know even less about fantasy than I know about scifi, so I am hoping others could help you more. I do know that there are many Finnish authors who write speculative fiction, dubbed "Finnish Weird", so you might search for that. Leena Krohn and Johanna Sinisalo are a couple of the more well known authors. There are also some recommendations in other topics and posts in this folder. And of course if you live in a bigger town, the library network will probably have a good selection of Finnish literature that has been translated.

One Finnish book I have read and enjoyed (and which has been translated into English) is Happy Days of the Grump by Tuomas Kyrö.

Books mentioned in this topic
Oneiron (other topics)Rabbit Back Literature Society, The (other topics)
The City of Woven Streets (other topics)
Fathoms of the Fenlake (other topics)
Fargoer (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (other topics)Leena Krohn (other topics)
Johanna Sinisalo (other topics)