New FILI grant round opens 1st of January!

FILI’s translation and printing grant application period will open the 1st of January and will last until February 1st.

Also FILI has announced: For the whole 2025, FILI guarantees that translation grants awarded to German publishers and publishers active in German-speaking Europe will cover 70 per cent of the translator’s fee, up to a maximum of €8,000. Grants are awarded for translating works of fiction and general non-fiction, children’s and young adult (YA) books, and comics and graphic novels from the Finnish, Finland-Swedish and Sámi languages. Grants are available only for works originally published in Finland.

It’s a perfect time to acquire exciting Finnish titles and apply for translation grants!

• Don’t have a Finnish title in your list yet? Browse our Digital rights guide and request materials.
• Don’t have a Finnish translator? Find them here!

ABOUT THE FILI GRANTS

From their website:

Grants are awarded to cover part of the translation cost, on average, 50 to 70 per cent. On average, FILI printing grants cover about a quarter of printing costs; the maximum printing grant amount is EUR 1000. Grants are paid to the publisher after publication of the translated book. The grant is valid for 24 months from the date the grant was awarded. If a publisher also receives a translation grant from another source, that will affect the amount of the grant awarded by FILI. For example, books awarded grants under the EU’s Creative Europe programme are not eligible for grants from FILI.

FILI’s grant programmes are funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Translation grants
Up to 70% of translation costs from Finnish or Finland-Swedish can be covered by a FILI translation grant. There are three application rounds per year, and in 2025 the rounds are:
1.1 – 1.2, 1.4 – 1.5, 1.10 – 1.11.

Printing grants
If you are publishing translations of Finnish picture books or comics, you can apply for up to 1000€ printing cost grant.

MILO

Max Seeck

Our most translated author is back with a new thrilling bestseller!

Milo is a slightly different Seeck detective story and as such a quality piece of work. More than that, it’s an outright masterpiece  (…)  Each new step has been an artistic success. Max Seeck, last year’s winner of the Glass Key Award for best Nordic detective story, has a golden touch for Finnish suspense fiction.

– Kai Hirvasnoro, Kansan Uutiset newspaper

Click here to request the English materials for MILO!

 

PINE BARK

Tommi Kinnunen

Bestselling literary masterpiece, almost 40,000 sold copies and 2024 Finlandia nominee in Fiction!

The work gives a voice to the forgotten victims of war, women and children, alongside the official war stories. It describes the impact of traumatic experiences on the human being in a concise way: what cannot be talked about cannot be released; one must grow a shelter, which also becomes a prison. Piece by piece, the work opens up the multiple dimensions of the tragedy that defines the lives of the characters and the multiple dimensions of the name motif.

– Finlandia Jury

Click here to download all materials for PINE BARK.

 

SANNA MARIN: FINLAND’S YOUNG PRIME MINISTER

Salla Vuorikoski

Bestselling non-fiction book about our dancing prime minister! 2024 Finlandia nominee in non-fiction!

“The end result is a high-quality non-fiction book.”

– Oskari Onninen, Helsingin Sanomat

Click here to access all reading materials for SANNA MARIN: FINLAND’S YOUNG PRIME MINISTER!

THE SECRET STAIRCASE

Salla Simukka & ill. JP Ahonen

An exciting and touching novel about two boys, who live in the same house but in different realities. 2024 Finlandia nominee in Children’s & YA.