Leena Krohn has been awarded the Authors’ Union recognition award for her career. Krohn has been an active author since the 1970s, and is one of the most famous and established voices in the Finnish literary scene.
Leena Krohn has been awarded the Authors’ Union recognition award, a yearly prize awarded to authors for their career and their work for the sake of literature. Krohn has been an active author since the 1970s, and has written plenty of novels, novellas, essays, and children’s books. Her style is characterised by magical realism and elements of speculative fiction. Her works have been translated into over a dozen different languages, and she is one of the most famous and established voices of the Finnish literary scene, and one of the best known Finnish authors internationally.
The Author’s Union statement reads as follows: “Leena Krohn’s narrative voice is unique, and her imagination knows no boundaries. In Krohn’s production the world is astonishingly weird and familiar at the same time, and in between words there seem to be hidden meanings. Despite the depth, Krohn leaves room for the reader’s own thought and reflections. The stories move from an insect city to an archive of paradoxes, and dream death. Krohn’s production is characterised by philosophical reflection and dreamlike strangeness. The strange stories deal with big human questions about making free choices, the difficulty of communication, shared reality and consciousness.”
Leena Krohn has previously been awarded the Eino Leino Prize (2017) and the Finlandia Prize (1992). Two of her works, Mathematical Creatures and The Pelican’s New Clothes, have recently travelled to Denmark.
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