Tommi Kinnunen secures new international deals: ‘PINE BARK’ to Estonia and ‘DEFIANCE’ to Hungary

Following the recent success in acquisition of the Japanese rights for PINE BARK and the DEFIANCE film news, we are thrilled to share more exciting news about our award-winning #1 bestselling author, Tommi Kinnunen:

The Estonian rights to PINE BARK have been acquired by Varrak. Additionally, Hungarian rights to DEFIANCE, Kinnunen’s 2020 masterpiece, were secured by Magyar Napló Publishing Company. DEFIANCE will be translated from Finnish to Hungarian by Béla Jávorszky. These two deals were closed by Julia Bogen.

PINE BARK topped Finland’s bestseller list within a month of its debut with over 30,000 copies sold. It is a densely atmospheric and arrestingly written novel about women’s fates in times of war, the difficulty of giving up, and how the proximity of death can change a person.

Rights to Tommi Kinnunen’s previous novels have sold to 22 territories, and rights for PINE BARK and for DEFIANCE are still available in the UK/US, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands…

We invite you to click here to download all reading material for PINE BARK.

Click here to download material for DEFIANCE.