Helsinki Literary Agency is a modern literary agency based in the capital of Finland. It offers publishers the best selection of Finnish fiction and nonfiction authors – a beautiful variety of genres and styles. Founded in the beginning of 2017, the agency is a joint venture of four Finnish publishing houses: Gummerus, Schildts & Söderströms, Siltala and Teos. The agency represents a wide range of prominent, award winning authors writing both in Finnish and Swedish.
Gummerus
Gummerus, founded in 1872, is Finland’s third largest publisher with a list of 200 titles each year. It is now owned by Swedish Storytel.
Schildts & Söderströms
Schildts & Söderströms is Finland’s largest Swedish language publisher with a history dating back 1891. Its imprint S&S publishes books in Finnish.
Siltala Publishing
Siltala, founded in 2008, publishes about 40 titles a year. Its list includes both literary fiction and nonfiction.
Orava Books
Orava Books, founded in 2024, is the children’s books imprint of Siltala Publishing. Its list includes fiction and non-fiction for ages 0-12.
Teos Publishers
Teos, founded in 2003, publishes about 45 new titles annually. The focus is on literary fiction, but the list includes also nonfiction and children’s titles. Teos is as of 2024 part of Siltala Publishing.
Agents:
Viivi Arela
CEO, Literary Agent
viivi@helsinkiagency.fi
Photo: Juho Sallinen
Urtė Liepuoniūtė
Senior Literary Agent
urte@helsinkiagency.fi
Photo: Juho Sallinen
Chiara Stanziani
Literary Agent
chiara@helsinkiagency.fi
Photo: Juho Sallinen
Karin Kvikant
Assistant
assistant@helsinkiagency.fi
Anastasia Basova (on parental leave)
Assistant
Photo: Juho Sallinen
Royalties
royalties@helsinkiagency.fi
Our family of agents, representing us exclusively around the globe:
Children’s books
Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Booksmugglers Agency | Benas Berantas
benas@booksmugglersagency.com
China
Grayhawk Agency | Clare Chi
clare@grayhawk-agency.blogspot.com
Eastern and Central Europe
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Agentia Literara Livia Stoia | Oana Vasile
oana.vasile@liviastoiaagency.ro
Greece
Ersilia Literary Agency | Avgi Daferera
childrensbooks@ersilialit.com
Korea
Amo Agency | Amo Noh
amonoh@gmail.com
Poland
Book/lab | Pjotr Wawrzenczyk
piotr@literatura.com.pl
Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese
Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency | Marina Penalva
marina@casanovaslynch.com
Turkey
Anatolia Literary Agency | Amy Spangler
amy@anatolialit.com
Address:
Lintulahdenkatu 3,
00530 Helsinki
FINLAND
Social media:
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Translation support for Finnish literature
You can read about translation and production grants here.
GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
Helsinki Literary Agency follows the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. We use cookies on this site to analyze our traffic and to enable certain parts of the site to function. The information we have about newsletter subscribers is used only to send out news and other information about Finnish literature. It will not be given to third parties.
We are glad to give you more detailed information about the measures we take to protect your data: our contact information is above.
Please note that we don’t accept submissions of unpublished works.