OLD TRADITIONS AND NEW EXPERIMENTS: THE YEAR IN FINLAND

Despite their differences, these books do reveal the everlasting love that the Finnish reading audience has for the field of life writing: not a year goes by without books about athletes (particularly football and ice hockey players) or statesmen, particularly former presidents. For the Swedishspeaking Finns, and those who regard the Nordic connection as important, many discussions and publications from Sweden are important as well. Since we are discussing life writing in the context of the Nordic countries, we cannot overlook the huge impact of the Norwegian autofictional book series by Karl-Ove Knausgârd, titled Min Kamp 1-6, which was translated into Finnish as Taisteluni.