Literature Finlandia Awards Boards and Voters Named: Hanna Nohynek, Ernest Lawson and Mari Leppänen to Decide on Winners

Finnish Book Foundation has nominated the 2022 Finlandia Awards panels and electors.

This year, the chief physician will decide on the recipient of the Finlandia Prize for Non-fiction To Hanna Nohythe winner of the Finlandia Prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature is chosen by the actor, presenter and class teacher Ernest Lawson and the winner of the Finlandia Prize for Fiction is decided by the bishop Mari Leppänen.

Nohynek, Lawson and Leppänen will decide the winners from the nominees first selected by the jury.

Nonfiction a communication entrepreneur has been appointed chairman of the award committee Suna Mountain and a membership editor Petter Lindberg and a communications entrepreneur Riitta Pollari. They will select up to six meritorious non-fiction non-fiction books from among the works of the year.

The nominees for the Finlandia Prize for Non-fiction will be published on Tuesday, November 8. Last year, the award was won Osmo Tapio Räihälä with his work Why contemporary music is so difficult (Athens).

Children’s and young people’s literature PhD, University Lecturer, has been appointed chairman of the selection board for the Finlandia Award nominees Sirke Happonen and a teacher of Finnish language and literature as a member Mari Uusitalo and the student, the winner of Pikku-Finlandia Ask Vaismaa.

Candidate books will be released on Wednesday, November 9th. Last year Anne-Maija Aallon youth novel Where the light enters (Otava) won the award.

Fiction The selection committee for the Finlandia Prize is chaired by PhD, Literary Researcher Veli-Matti Pynttäri and as editor-in-chief Sanna Keskinen as well as the producer Anu-Elina Lehti.

The nominees for the Finlandia Prize for Fiction will be published on Thursday, November 10th.

Last year he received the award Jukka Viikilän novel Heavenly Reception (Big Dipper).

Every The Finlandia prize is worth 30,000 euros. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 30th.