The works of the poet of a constantly renewing and recyclable language have not been translated into Finnish.
Finland the largest literary prize, 45,000 euros, has been awarded to a writer and publisher from Vaasa To Ralf Andtbacka (b.1963) from poetry works Bönematriserna and Bok av tröst.
The Tollander prize was awarded at the annual celebration of Svenska litteratursällskapet in Helsinki on Monday evening.
According to the justifications, the collections in question continue the lines that began to be drawn already in Andtbacka's debut work Öga för öga 30 years ago. He both “knows: language” and “knows: how to list”, as evidenced by his twenty books and versatile activities in the field of literature:
“His collected works are a veritable Wunderkammer of ideas, forms and objects, unexpected, impossible and improbable, constantly renewing and recycling language.”
Translations of Andtbacka's texts can be found, for example, in an anthology of Finnish-Swedish poetry Front-weighted comet (2000).
Astrid and 30,000 euros from the Bertel Appelberg fund went to a writer and literary critic Pia Ingström from an autobiographical essay Min farmer's nerve, where we move through his childhood landscapes in Helsinki's Kontula. The last work by Ingström, who retired from Hufvudstadsbladet, has been translated into Finnish Emotions have their place: writings about homes (2014).
The writer was awarded a 25,000 euro recognition from the bookseller Bo Carleskog's fund To Adrian Perera from his novel Below mänskorna ha problemen, which describes the main character Constance's life as a single mother and immigrant in Eastern Uusimaa and Sri Lanka. “Constance's voice composed of Swedish, English, Finnish and Sinhalese can be heard in the work,” the justification describes.
Playwrightdirector and actor Oskar Pöysti received for his play War and piss with the loving memory of Hans Rosling Ragnar, Ester, Rolf and Margareta Bergbom fund's drama award of 25,000 euros. The piece will return to Viirus' stage on February 6 and March 5 in Helsinki.
Pöyst's play is “a free interpretation of how the Swedish doctor Hans Rosling, who became known as the popularizer of the results of health statistics, would have reacted to the growing environmental destruction and wars”.
The 15,000 euros of the Marcus Collin memorial fund was won by an artist Alma Heikkiläwhose “sensitive paintings are closely connected to the climate crises of today”.
In all SLS awarded 22 people for their work in literature, research, translation, visual arts and drama.
The total amount of the prizes is 369,000 euros.
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