Writer Pirjo Hassinen Wins the Savonia Award
Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Finnish Litterature, News from Finland, Nordic Literature Tags: Finnish Litterature, Finnish writer
The Finnish writer Pirjo Hassinen has received the annual Finnish literary prize Savonia for her novel "Popula".
The $ 10,000 prize is given annually to an outstanding novel from the Finnish Savo region, being this year’s edition the 24th.
Fruit of the writer's indignation against the recent growth of the extreme right ...