Yeah, I am lamentably late publishing anything for Women in Translation Month. It is, after all, the last day of August. But I didn’t want to talk about these two books until the current year’s Hugo excitement was over, because they are both candidates for next year.
It would be nice to have a Finnish author or two on the ballot in Helsinki, wouldn’t it?
Of course, this being Finland, both books are by women, and both have strongly feminist themes. I wouldn’t expect anything less of my amazing Finnish friends. Both are translations. But there the similarities end. The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo was originally written in Finnish and is science fiction. Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff was originally written in Swedish and is YA fantasy. Both are great books in their own way.
So if you’d like to know more, check out my reviews. You can find The Core of the Sun here, and Maresi here.
Have you read City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta yet? Just in case you’d like to, maybe, add one more name to your list… 🙂
I only found out about it last week. Definitely on the radar now.
Not a translation, of course.
No, not a translation. But it might still count as “written by a Finnish author!” 🙂
Oh, absolutely. Just no urgency to review it in August.