Wonderful news: The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen has been nominated for the Mirrormere Prize, awarded yearly by the Finnish Tolkien Society.
The Thick of the Forest by Linnea Kuuluvainen continues to make waves and enchant the literary scene: the book has been nominated for the Mirrormere Prize, a yearly prize awarded by the Finnish Tolkien Society to the best book with fantastical elements published in the previous year, picked from a selection of five nominees. The winner will be announced in late October, during the Helsinki Book Fair.
The Thick of the Forest is set in a near future where nature has started fighting back against human exploitation, destroying the world as we know it. Mixing elements from Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in the unique setting of a Finnish forest capable of utter destruction, The Thick of the Forest is an entrancing and linguistically captivating first novel about a forest that haunts people and two women, Edla and Ingrid, whose stories intersect. In Finland, the book is published by Gummerus, and its foreign rights have already been sold for Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, and Slovak.
Linnea Kuuluvainen (b. 1996) is a Turku-based author with a background in literature and creative writing studies. Her prose is distinguishable for its magical realism and lyrical depth.
Warm congratulations to the author, the publisher, and all nominees – and fingers crossed!