Anja Snellman

Anja Kyllikki Snellman-Orma (née Kauranen; born 23 May 1954, in Helsinki) is a Finnish novelist, poet, journalist, television commentator, and psychotherapist.^[1]

Her books have been translated to 20 languages so far. She was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal in 2007.^[2] Anja Snellman has two daughters from her first marriage to Saska Saarikoski-Snellman. Today she is married to Jukka Orma, a musician^[3]^[1]

Selected works edit

Anja Snellman's novels and poetry collections:

Sonja O. kävi täällä (1981; J. H. Erkko Award)
Tushka (1983)
Kultasuu (1985)
Pimeää vain meidän silmillemme (1987)
Kiinalainen kesä (1989)
Kaipauksen ja energian lapset (1991)
Ihon aika (1993)
Pelon maantiede (1995)
Syysprinssi (1996)
Arabian Lauri (1997)
Side (1998)
Paratiisin kartta (1999)
Aura (2000)
Safari Club (2001)
Äiti ja koira (2002)
Lyhytsiipiset (2003)
Saa kirjoittaa (2004), poetry collection
Rakkauden maanosat (2005)
Lemmikkikaupan tytöt (2007)
Harry H (2007)
"Parvekejumalat" (2009)
"Öisin olemme samanlaisia" (2011), poetry collection
"Ivana B."
"Pääoma"

Awards and honours edit

Pro Finlandia Medal, 2007

References edit

^ ^a ^b Paavilainen, Ulla, ed. (2014). Kuka kukin on: Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 2015 [Who’s Who in Finland, 2015] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. pp. 866–867. ISBN 978-951-1-28228-0.
^ George C. Schoolfield (1998), A history of Finland's literature, U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-4189-5, 1981: Sonja O. was here, by Anja Kauranen, was a critical and commercial success, a description of student bohemians of the 1970s; an innovative feature was that the writer and the principal character were women who had appropriated the old freedoms of men. The novel, brilliant in its language, was not the starting shot of an illustrious career: in her subsequent work Kauranen has never again reached quite the same level.
^ "Anja Snellman's home page".

External links edit

Official website (in Finnish)

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[KKO-1] Paavilainen, Ulla, ed. (2014). Kuka kukin on: Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 2015 [Who’s Who in Finland, 2015] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. pp. 866–867. ISBN 978-951-1-28228-0.

[2] George C. Schoolfield (1998), A history of Finland's literature, U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-4189-5, 1981: Sonja O. was here, by Anja Kauranen, was a critical and commercial success, a description of student bohemians of the 1970s; an innovative feature was that the writer and the principal character were women who had appropriated the old freedoms of men. The novel, brilliant in its language, was not the starting shot of an illustrious career: in her subsequent work Kauranen has never again reached quite the same level.

[3] "Anja Snellman's home page".

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