Professor Henrik Meinander has been awarded with the Karl Emil Tollander Award and the Tollanderska Medal by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland.
Another accolade is in for one of our most prominent non-fiction authors Henrik Meinander: he has been awarded the Karl Emil Tollander Prize, worth 50.000 euros, and the Tollanderska Medal by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland for his latest book Helsinki. Story of a City.
The Karl Emil Tollander Award, is the largest award given by the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, and is handed out at the SLS Annual Celebration on 5 February. The award is given in recognition to a literary or scientific lifetime achievement and is one of the awards boasting the largest monetary value in the Nordics, and has been awarded since 1913.
The Society has stated “in his academic career Henrik Meinander has combined influential scientific contributions with elegant historiography for a broad audience. Helsinki. Story of a City is an excellent example of this. With a steady hand Meinander brings to life his beloved home city’s history. He carries the reader through Helsinki’s growth and its soon five-centuries-long development, formed by the changing forces of the surroundings and geopolitics. Meinander also admirably depicts how the soul of a city is created mostly by the people who live in it, the language and living conditions, the street life, the architecture, and the culture.”
In Helsinki. Story a City Henrik Meinander, one of Finland’s most prominent historians, explores the development of the Finnish capital from a tiny fishing village to a contemporary Nordic metropolis, placing the events that characterized the city in a broader historical context.
Henrik Meinander (b. 1960) is a professor of history at theUniversity of Helsinki and the author of many acclaimed books on Finnish and Nordic history. He was formerly curator of the Mannerheim Museum in Helsinki and head of the Finnish Institute in Stockholm. His works have been translated into over 10 languages, and are non-fiction bestsellers in Finland
Warmest congratulations to the author!