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The source languages of the nine new books to be translated include Spanish, Ukrainian and German, and, as a first for this grant, Greek and Romanian – among others. Two of the grants went to dramatic texts in book form.  The Finnish Cultural Foundation created the Translating wor...

Text: Reeta HolmaPhotos: Petri SummanenIn 2022, the Finnish Cultural Foundation launched a new form of support aimed at translating and bringing world literature to Finnish readers, especially from those original languages which are currently underrepresented in Finnish translations.&n...

Judith Schalansky. Photo: Andreas Schmidt In 2022, the Finnish Cultural Foundation established a new kind of grant whose goal is to translate and make available to Finnish readers world literature especially from languages that are nowadays ...