Johanna Sinisalo’s works have been translated into nearly 20 languages. She also writes film and TV screenplays, and co-wrote the script for the sci-fi comedy Iron Sky. In addition to her six novels, Johanna Sinisalo has also written a children’s book, two collections of short stories and dozens of stories in anthologies. She categorises her own works as ‘Finnish Weird’, because they do not fit neatly into any single genre but instead contain elements of several text types. In her books, trolls are part of the Finnish animal kingdom, bees suffer a catastrophic extinction and ordinary chilli peppers are traded like illegal drugs. 1958 in Sodankylä) is one of the most original writers working in Finland and also one of the most successful on the international scene.
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