Unknown Soldiers
September 2, 2017
When I was in Finland in July of this year I made it a point to pick up Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna. This is a new
When I was in Finland in July of this year I made it a point to pick up Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna. This is a new
The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna is a classic of Finnish literature. I bought both the English translation and the Finnish original when I lived in
Alvar Aalto was one of Finland’s most celebrated architects and designers. He is a national hero whose work can be found all over Finland as
I picked up The Constitutional Framework for the Autonomy of Åland: A Survey of the Status of an Autonomous Region in the throes of European Integration [1]
My favourite Finnish pop band, Ultra Bra, is reuniting this summer for three concerts. I came to enjoy the music of Ultra Bra too late
I bought The Sámi People–A Handbook, written and edited by John Trygve Solbakk, when I visited Siida, the Finnish Sami museum in Inari in 2007. To mark
I picked up Facing Finnic: Some Challenges to Historical and Contact Linguistics at Akateeminen Kirjakauppa in Helsinki about fifteen years ago. This is a collection of twelve papers that
I remember buying A History of Finland by Eino Jutikkala and Kauko Pirinen, translated by Paul Sjöblom (who also wrote Finland from the Inside: Eyewitness Reports of a
Finland celebrates its centennial of independence this year, and one of my reading projects for 2017 is to read all of the books I have
Planning a new standard language: Finnic minority languages meet the new millennium edited by Helena Sulkala & Harri Mantila (translated by Marja Heikkinen) is a collection