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The film rights of Memory of Water, the dystopian novel by Emmi Itäranta, have been sold to the production company Bufo. Founded in 2007, Bufo has produced a number of films of which many have received international recognition, such as Concrete Night (2013) by Pirjo Honkasalo and The Good Son (2011) by Zaida Bergroth. Based in Helsinki, the company concentrates on plot-driven and meaningful stories that can also entertain big audiences. So far the foreign rights of Itäranta’s novel have been sold in 21 territories.
The eponymous feature film Memory of Water will be directed by Saara Saarela and set in a futuristic Lapland, where water is a luxury, rationed by the military. When a young woman discovers a secret water source she has to decide if she is ready to risk her life by letting the water run free.
Water will be the next natural resource wars are fought over. Emmi Itäranta’s novel Memory of Water deals with the grim topic with amazing talent: she has managed to write an engaging, beautiful, serene, almost zen-like dystopian story that simultaneously sends chills up your spine and steals your heart.
– Johanna Sinisalo, author of Troll and Core of the Sun
The past two months Emmi Itäranta has been the first-ever Author in Residence of Silicon Valley Reads, the closing event of which took place last weekend. This year this annual community program focused on fiction addressing climate change. In addition to the official program, she visited local schools to talk about her book, climate change, writing, and more.
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RIGHTS SOLD: MEMORY OF WATER
Original publisher: FINLAND, Teos
WORLD ENGLISH, HarperCollins
ARABIC, Dar Al Muna
BRAZIL, Record
BULGARIA, Perseus
CZECH, Albatros Media/Plus
DENMARK, Turbine
ESTONIA, Koolibri
FRANCE, Place des Editeurs
GEORGIA, Palitra L Publishing
GERMANY, DTV/Reihe Hanser
HUNGARY, Metropolis Media
ITALY, Sperling & Kupfer
JAPAN, Nishimura Shoten
KOREA, The Book in My Life
LATVIA, Janis Roze
NORWAY, Gresvik Forlag
RUSSIA, Text Publishers
SPAIN, Ediciones B.
SWEDEN, Modernista
TURKEY, Dogan Egmont
FILM RIGHTS, Bufo
RIGHTS SOLD: THE CITY OF WOVEN STREETS
WORLD ENGLISH, HarperCollins
BRAZIL, Record
FRANCE, Place des Editeurs
GEORGIA, Palitra L Publishing
HUNGARY, Metropolis Media
JAPAN, Nishimura Shoten
READING MATERIAL: MEMORY OF WATER
English edition
Finnish edition
READING MATERIAL: THE CITY OF WOVEN STREETS
English edition
Finnish edition
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