1. Aleksis Kivi (1834)

Finnish Writer

Finnish novelist, poet, and playwright who is most remembered for his groundbreaking 1870 novel, Seven Brothers. The work is widely considered the most important piece of Finnish-language fiction.

2. Mika Waltari (1908)

Finnish Writer

Finnish author best known for his influential 1945 historical novel The Egyptian. He was one of the most prolific writers of his era, penning 29 novels, 26 plays and 6...

3. Mikko Rimminen (1975)

Finnish Writer

Mikko Rimminen is a Finnish novelist and poet. He won the Finlandia Prize for the novel Nenäpäivä or Red Nose Day.

4. Sally Salminen (1906)

Finnish Writer

Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen later Salminen-Dührkopf was an internationally renowned author from the Åland Islands Finland.

5. Elina Hirvonen (1975)

Finnish Writer

Elina Hirvonen is a Finnish writer journalist and documentary film-maker. She was educated at the Helsinki University of Art and Design and also the University of Turku where she studied...

6. Reijo Mäki (1958)

Finnish Writer

Reijo Juhani Mäki is a Finnish writer of crime fiction. Eight of his novels have been made into films from which 4 have been played in cinemas in Finland. 4...

7. Johanna Sinisalo (1958)

Finnish Writer

Aila Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama amongst other subjects at the University of Tampere.

8. Rosa Liksom (1958)

Finnish Writer

Rosa Liksom is a Finnish writer and artist. She studied anthropology and social sciences at the universities of Helsinki Copenhagen and Moscow. She won the J. H. Erkko Award in...

9. Irmelin Sandman Lilius (1936)

Finnish Writer

Irmelin Sandman Lilius is a Swedish-speaking Finnish author. Her first book Trollsång was published in 1955. She has written picture books and novels for children as well as books for...

10. Daniel Juslenius (1676)

Finnish Writer

Daniel Juslenius was a Finnish writer and bishop. He was a professor of Hebrew Greek and theology at the Royal Academy of Turku. Juslenius is considered Finland's first Fennoman and...

11. Hannu Mäkelä (1943)

Finnish Writer

Hannu Mäkelä is an author of more than 100 books in Finnish: novels collections of short stories edited anthologies and children's books. Hannu Mäkelä is known for his books...

12. Raija Siekkinen (Unknow)

Finnish Writer

Raija Siekkinen was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1998.

13. Heikki Turunen (1945)

Finnish Writer

Heikki Anton Turunen is a Finnish author who lives in Joensuu. He grew up with his six sisters in a farming family. In 1964 he got a job as a...

14. Pietari Päivärinta (1827)

Finnish Writer

Pietari Päivärinta was a Finnish writer and Diet member. His depictions of peasant life quickly translated and published in Germany and Scandinavia are among the first examples of modern Finnish...

15. Kari Enqvist (1954)

Finnish Writer

Kari-Pekka Enqvist is a professor of cosmology in the Department of Physical Sciences at the University of Helsinki.

16. Seppo Jokinen (1949)

Finnish Writer

Seppo Sakari Jokinen is a Finnish writer of crime fiction. His books' main character is the fictional police officer Sakari Koskinen from Hervanta Tampere. Koskinen is divorced and has a...

17. Tuija Lehtinen (1954)

Finnish Writer

Tuija Lehtinen is a Finnish writer. In 1973 she graduated from high school in Kuopio then in 1978 graduated with a BS from the University of Oulu majoring in statistics....

18. Hannele Huovi (Unknow)

Finnish Writer

Hannele Huovi is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2009.

19. Olli Jalonen (Unknow)

Finnish Writer

Olli Jalonen is a Finnish writer and recipient of the J. H. Erkko Award in 1978 for his debut novel Unien tausta and the Eino Leino Prize in 1990.

20. Ilpo Tiihonen (1950)

Finnish Writer

Ilpo Tiihonen is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1991.

21. Kai Nieminen (1950)

Finnish Writer

Kai Nieminen is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1999.

22. Juha Hurme (Unknow)

Finnish Writer

Juha Hurme is a Finnish playwright and writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2006.

23. Jari Tervo (1959)

Finnish Writer

Jari Tervo is a Finnish author. He is a major name in current Finnish literature. He writes traditional plot-driven prose sometimes more humoristic sometimes more like a detective story. Often...

24. Kerttu Kauniskangas (1920)

Finnish Writer

Kerttu Kauniskangas was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1968.

25. Tuula Kallioniemi (1951)

Finnish Writer

Tuula Kallioniemi is an author of Finnish children's literature. She was awarded the Topelius Prize in 1979 the State's Prize for Literature in 1985 and the Anni Swan Medal in...

26. Hannu Luntiala (1952)

Finnish Writer

Hannu Veikko Luntiala is the Director General of the Population Register Centre in Finland and an author for Tammi a Finnish publishing company.

27. Jutta Zilliacus (1925)

Finnish Writer

Jutta Armelle Zilliacus is a Helsinki-born Estonian Swedish-language journalist author and former Member of Parliament. Zilliacus was an MP for the Swedish People's Party from Helsinki from 1975 to 1986...

28. Kaarina Goldberg (1956)

Finnish Writer

Kaarina Goldberg is a Finnish author and journalist who lives in Vienna. She is best known for her children's books Petokylän Ilona Ilves Rämäpäinen robotti and her comic strip Senni...

29. Juha Ruusuvuori (1957)

Finnish Writer

Juha Ensio Ruusuvuori is a Finnish freelance writer who graduated to Master of Arts from the university of Tampere in year 1987. He has worked as photographer in the news...

30. Risto Isomäki (1961)

Finnish Writer

Risto Isomäki is a Finnish environmental activist and author of science fiction and nonfiction books. His 2005 novel Sarasvatin hiekkaa was nominated for the Finlandia Prize in 2005 and won...

31. Kari Hotakainen (1957)

Finnish Writer

Kari Hotakainen is a Finnish writer. Hotakainen started his writing career as a reporter in Pori. In 1986 he moved to Helsinki. He became a full-time writer in 1996. He...

32. Jukka Vieno (1957)

Finnish Writer

Jukka Vieno is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1978.

33. Monika Fagerholm (1961)

Finnish Writer

Monika Kristina Fagerholm is a Swedish-speaking Finnish author living in Ekenäs Finland. She is the daughter of professor Nils-Erik Fagerholm and library assistant Kristina Herrgård. Fagerholm has studied psychology and...

34. Juha K. Tapio (1957)

Finnish Writer

Juha K. Tapio is a Finnish writer and critic whose only novel Frankensteinin muistikirja was awarded the Helsingin Sanomat Literary Prize for the best Finnish first novel of 1996. The...

35. Ellen Marie Vars (1957)

Finnish Writer

Ellen Marie Vars is a Sámi author who writes in Northern Sámi. She was born in 1957 in the village of Láhpoluoppal in Kautokeino Norway.

36. Kaari Utrio (1942)

Finnish Writer

Kaari Marjatta Utrio is a Finnish writer. She has written tens of historical novels and many non-fiction books on historical topics. She is an educated historian holding the degree of...

37. Sofi Oksanen (1977)

Finnish Writer

Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish contemporary writer. She's considered one of the most prominent contemporary authors of her generation as well as a global literary phenomenon. She was born in...

38. Susan Ruusunen (1970)

Finnish Writer

Susan Kristiina Kuronen currently Susan Kristiina Ruusunen is a divorced mother from Finland who had a relationship with Finland's then prime minister Matti Vanhanen. The couple had met via an...

39. Marko Kitti (1970)

Finnish Writer

Marko Kitti is a Finnish author. He has published five works of fiction. He was a candidate for the 2008 Runeberg prize

40. Sami Miettinen (1970)

Finnish Writer

Sami Miettinen is a well-known Finnish author of Non-fiction. He is a major name in current Finnish business literature. He published Neuvotteluvalta in March 2008. The negotiation theory developed in...

41. Juha Jokela (1970)

Finnish Writer

Juha Petteri Jokela is Finnish playwright and scriptwriter best known for his Mobile Horror play and TV series. Jokela graduated from high school gymnasium in Tampere in 1989 and studied...

42. Veijo Meri (1928)

Finnish Writer

Veijo Meri is a Finnish writer. Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor. Born in Viipuri Meri graduated from...

43. Viljo Kajava (1909)

Finnish Writer

Viljo Kajava was a Finnish poet and writer. His first collections of poems were released in 1935. During his 50-year career he published nearly 40 books most of them poems....

44. Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1885)

Finnish Writer

Veikko Antero Koskenniemi was a Finnish poet born in Oulu. In 1921 he took the title of Professor of Literary History in University of Turku Finland. In 1948 he became...

45. Saima Harmaja (1913)

Finnish Writer

Saima Rauha Maria Harmaja was a Finnish poet and writer. She is known for her tragic life and early death which are reflected in her sensitive poems. She came from...

46. Josef Julius Wecksell (1838)

Finnish Writer

Josef Julius Wecksell was a Finnish poet and playwright. He studied at the University of Helsinki. He was committed to the Endenich asylum and then Lappvik asylum from 1865 until...

47. Kati-Claudia Fofonoff (1947)

Finnish Writer

Kati-Claudia Fofonoff was an author and translator who wrote in Skolt Sámi and Finnish. Her books have also been translated into Northern Sami Norwegian and Icelandic.

48. Martti Haavio (1899)

Finnish Writer

Martti Haavio was a Finnish poet folklorist and mythologist writing poetry under the pen name P. Mustapää. He was born on 22 January 1899 in Temmes and died 4 February...

49. Bo Carpelan (1926)

Finnish Writer

Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan was a Finnish poet and author. He published his first book of poems in 1946 and received his Ph. D. in 1960. Carpelan who wrote...

50. Ilmari Kianto (1874)

Finnish Writer

Ilmari Kianto also known as Ilmari Calamnius and Ilmari Iki-Kianto was a Finnish author. He is best known for his books Punainen viiva and Ryysyrannan Jooseppi. In his books he...