2006 Finlandia Prize winner announced

Date: December 8, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments

The 2006 Finlandia Prize — Finland’s most prestigious literary award — has been given to Kjell Westö for his Swedish language novel Där vi en gÃ¥ng gÃ¥tt (”Where we once walked”).

The novel, which is set in the early 20th century Helsinki has not been translated into English, although some of his earlier work, most notably Lang are available. You can read more about Westö’s work at Amazon.com and at Amazon.co.uk.



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