Month: November 2023
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Peter Mickwitz: A trip to Ukraine
The last week of October I travelled to Kyiv, Ukraine together with representatives for the Nordic PEN centres, PEN Berlin,...
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Inger-Mari Aikio
I have worked as a freelance artist since 2008. Before that, I was a journalist for a magazine and on...
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Gag Baani
I was forced to leave the country after spending 45 years in a small village ‘Gag’ in the backward part...
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Csilla Csépke
Csilla Csépke is a Helsinki based writer from Hungary. She was born in the stern winter of 1986 in Budapest,...
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Muhaned Durubi
Muhaned Durubi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979) is a visual artist and a poet who lives in Helsinki. In...
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Zoila Forss
Zoila Forss-Crespo Moreyra was born in Lima, Peru, on April 18, 1969. In 1995 Forss received her BA in Communications...
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Yaseen Ghaleb
Yaseen Ghaleb Aldhadi, is an Iraqi writer who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. In 2005 he graduated...
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Saad Hadi
Saad Hadi is an Iraqi writer, journalist, and visual artist born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1956. He holds a master’s...
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Farzaneh Hatami Landi
Farzaneh Hatami Landi (b.1964) is from southern Iran. She came to Finland in 1990 and completed her technology studies at...
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Susinukke Kosola
Daniil Kozlov (b. 1991), artist named Susinukke Kosola, is a St. Petersburg-born writer living in Turku and a mixed worker...
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Elena Lapina-Balk
Elena Lapina-Balk is a writer who was born in St. Petersburg. Having received a university degree from the Leningrad Institute...
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Shashank Mane
Born in Mumbai, India, I have travelled and lived around the world from a young age. Spending years in Geneva,...
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Hope Nwosu
Hope Nwosu was born on April 27, 1986 in Akpugoeze, Enugu, Nigeria. She received her BA in English and Literary...
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Adrian Perera
Adrian Perera, born 1986, is a writer and lives in Turku. In addition to the collection of poems White Monkey...
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José Luis Rico
José Luis Rico (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1987) is a poet and translator from Northern Mexico currently living in Finland. Blanco...
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Riku Ryynänen
I am a 40 year old cp disabled poet. In my poetry, I try to make otherness visible, my own...
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Roxana Sadvokassova
A curious lazy amoeba who’s never quite sure of own shape, size and content. Born in 1992, Kazakhstan. After having...
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Helena Sinervo
Helena Sinervo is a writer, poet and translator who lives in Helsinki. She has published 11 books of poems and...
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Olga Spyropoulou
Olga Spyropoulou (b. 1985, Athens) is a Finland-based performance artist, poet, and researcher, utilizing disorder as artistic practice. She is...
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Nataliya Teramae
I was born in 1980 and raised until the age of 11 in a state that doesn’t exist anymore –...