Name Johanna Sinisalo Role Fiction writer | Movies Iron Sky | |
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Awards James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Finlandia Award Books Not Before Sundown, Troll: A Love Story, The Blood of Angels, Birdbrain, Lasisilma Similar People Timo Vuorensola, Michael Kalesniko, Samuli Torssonen, James Tiptree - Jr, Jussi Lehtiniemi | ||
Johanna sinisalo at ropecon 2005
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. Professionally she worked in the advertising business, rising to the level of marketing designer.
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An important figure in the Finnish science fiction scene in the late 1980s and early '90s (winning a rare back-to-back collection of Atorox Awards for short fiction in the genre), she was also the first Finnish science fiction writer to make a mainstream breakthrough by breaking genre barriers.
Johanna sinisalo at ropecon 2005
Fiction
Sinisalo was awarded the Finlandia Prize for literature in 2000 for her first novel, Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (translated as Not Before Sundown in 2003 and again as Troll — A Love Story in 2004 for the American market). The novel has been translated into several languages. Movie rights were acquired by Carter Smith in 2006.
An English translation of "Linnunaivot" was published in 2010 by Peter Owen Publishers under the title "Birdbrain" (translated by David Hackston). '
Screenwriting
She is also the screenwriter of Energia Productions Iron Sky movie, a sci-fi comedy set in 2018.
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