Translation grants guarantee – apply before 1st of May!

We have excellent news for these hard times!
Now available – a guarantee of Finnish translation grants by FILI!  Apply before 1st of May!

All applications for translation grants that meet the grant criteria are guaranteed at least 50% grant towards the translation costs.
The guarantee remains valid as long as the situation requires and applies for applications from April throughout 2020, or as long as the budgets allow it. After this the need to prolong the guarantee will be evaluated. Read more here.

Apply for grants here – the Spring application deadline is on 1st of May 23:59.

Below are 3 excellent Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s titles that are eligible for the translation grant.

Find your next Finnish bestseller today!

 

FICTION


MY FRIEND NATALIA (Literary fiction) by Laura Lindstedt

A bold, and brave novel about young woman’s sexuality, the power of narration, and identity.

Natalia starts to see a therapist to help solve the problems in her sex life. It is clear from the beginning that she is not going to play by the rules of the therapy. The weekly sessions combine art, philosophy, literature, childhood memories, and erotic experiences as a method of treatment, and slowly they make Natalia lose all her inhibitions. She starts to enjoy the therapy – maybe too much?

Rights sold: (12): FINLAND, BELGIUM, ESTONIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, HUNGARY, ITALY, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, ROMANIA, SWEDEN, UNITED STATES

Materials available: Full English manuscript – ask by clicking here

FACELIFT by Miika Nousiainen
Sami has a dream: he desperately wants to be a father. His biological clock has been ticking for the past 15 years so loudly that sometimes it’s hard to hear his own thoughts. But it’s not so easy to become a father, first of all, you need to find a suitable future mother candidate.Rights sold: FINLAND, GERMANYMaterials available: English sample – ask by clicking here
THE WOMEN I THINK ABOUT AT NIGHT by Mia Kankimäki

Part biography, part travelogue, this book takes you from Karen Blixen’s farm to the forbidden city of Tibet to modern-day Japan,  following the footsteps of 10 brave historical women.

Rights sold: (16): FINLAND, CHINA, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, ESTONIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, RUSSIA, SLOVENIA, SWEDEN, UNITED STATES

Materials available: Full English manuscript – ask by clicking here


NON-FICTION


FUTURE SKILLS by Perttu Pölönen

Future Skills brings together the skills that will help you succeed in an unprecedented and uncertain future. It is a book for those of you who want to look into the near future from different perspectives, challenge your own thinking and discover new ideas.

The more technological we become, the more human we will have to become as well. The future needs a human revolution.
Rights sold: FINLAND

Materials available: English sample and synopsis – ask by clicking here

PUTIN’S TROLLS by Jessikka Aro

Russia wages war against civilians online. Every critical voice is an enemy.
Award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro’s book presents criminal smearing campaigns, launched and approved by the Kremlin against private
individuals around Western countries. Putin’s Trolls, praised by critics in Finland, brings together recent international and illegal filth operations to silence and smear the critics
of the Kremlin. The book zooms into the destinies of the author Jessikka Aro, financier Bill Browder, Bellingcat investigator Eliot Higgins, journalist Liz Wahl and many more.

Rights sold: (7) FINLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, ESTONIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND, ROMANIA

Materials available: Full English manuscript – ask by clicking here

WILD EAST by Aapo Roselius & Oula Silvennoinen

The Wild East is a story of the year 1919 and the events known as the kindred nation wars that broke out in order to extend Finland’s borders far to the east. It is the story of Finland and the Finns in a violent, sad and almost tragicomic adventure where, for a moment, anything seemed possible.

The First World War did not end in November 1918. With the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Bolshevik revolution, warfare in Eastern Europe continued for years. Revolutionary, counter-revolutionary and national armies of new nations struggled
for the remnants of the destroyed empire. The war lottery attracted the Finns to carry it out the greatest dream of Finnish nationalism: Greater Finland.

Rights sold: FINLAND,  ESTONIA, ROMANIA, SWEDEN

Materials available: English sample – ask by clicking here


CHILDREN’S & YA


DETAINED
by Salla Simukka

Nobody should be punished for crimes they didn’t commit. What about crimes they were going to commit in the future? A startling story of a world where teenagers are getting captured and imprisoned for the crimes they are expected to commit in the future. By the author of Snow White Trilogy.

Rights sold: FINLAND

Materials available: English  sample and synopsis – ask by clicking here

LITTLE SHOP OF NIGHTMARES SERIES by Magdalena Hai
Magdalena Hai and Teemu Juhani’s quirky, popular and hilarious early reader’s series The Little Shop of Nightmares has now a 3rd book coming up, rights sold already to Estonia and Romania!Rights sold: (13): FINLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, ESTONIA, GERMANY, HUNGARY, LATVIA, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, TURKEY

Materials available: Full English pdfs – ask by clicking here

MINI SCIENCE: WHERE ARE YOU by Laura Ertimo

New science series for the smallest in the family!

In Where Are You? we follow Plop, a little creature who guides us through space to the Earth and from there to the human DNA and finally to the world of atoms. Zooming in all the way from the enormities of space to the minisculness of atoms, we learn a great deal in between.

Rights sold: FINLAND,  ESTONIA

Materials available: Full English pdf – ask by clicking here

Contact the literary agent for your territory for recommendations and bestseller lists:

Germany
US, UK & Commonwealth, Spain, Latin America, Brazil, Portugal and Asia. Film & TV rights.
(in collaboration with co-agents)

Elina Ahlbäck
elina@ahlbackagency.com


Nordic Countries, the Netherlands, France, Germany (children’s books)

Julia Kellums
julia@ahlbackagency.com


Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Baltics, and Eastern & Southern Europe, world Arabic.

Toomas Aasmäe
toomas@ahlbackagency.com