Mark your calendars: author Susanna Hast is travelling to Germany this November, to attending the Nordic Literary Days event in Hamburg 24-27.11, and will also be travelling to Kiel and Berlin during the trip.
Author Susanna Hast has a doctorate in Social Sciences. She works as a researcher and Associate Professor at Uniarts Helsinki. She has researched war, compassion and corporality.
Her intimately personal debut novel Body of Evidence (2022) touches on the mechanisms of violence and trauma, and in conjunction, the silent war against women, one that leaves no trace in the history books. The book is out in German with Nautilus
Her second novel, Hopelessness (2025), is a novel about maternal rejection from an adult daughter’s perspective. The work approaches the internal violence of intimate relationships, the necessity of separation and the horror of duality.