We are very thrilled to announce that SANNA MARIN: FINLAND’S YOUNG PRIME MINISTER by an award-winning journalist Salla Vuorikoski, has been nominated for the 2024 Finlandia Prize in Non-Fiction!

Vuorikoski’s bestselling book has already sold over 12,000 copies, just three weeks after its publication. An international edition will soon be available. Rights already sold to Estonia at auction.

The jury praised the book:

The smooth narrative grips the reader from start to finish, and the precise, analytical text articulates the heated political developments of recent years. This intelligent, engaging work seeks an explanation to the question that haunts the political audience: what happened to Sanna Marin?

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Finlandia Prize is the most prestigious literary award in Finland, worth 30 000 euros. The winner will be announced on November 27.

Sanna Marin: Finland’s Young Prime Minister

Salla Vuorikoski

Sanna Marin through the eyes of her inner circle: how did she become an international superstar with 1 million followers on Instagram

In December 2019, a dramatic government crisis catapulted Sanna Marin to become the youngest Prime Minister in the world. Soon she was to lead a country whose inner and outer security would be threatened by a serious pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The outspoken Prime Minister garnered both admiration and spite. For some, Marin’s unconventional stance towards the ministerial institution was too much to bear. At the end of her term, the young social democrat from Tampere had grown to become an international superstar for whom Finland was too small and stifling.

This biography details how Marin became a liberal symbol, an opponent of right-wing populism, and a role model for the world’s young women. Readers learn in-depth about her passionate support of Ukraine, along with a dive into the history of Finland’s former prime minister who joined a group of former leading politicians turned global consultants and speakers as part of an international network of leadership.

Salla Vuorikoski, a team lead of the investigative journalism unit at Finland’s largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, has amassed an extensive amount of information and interviewed dozens of political insiders and individuals close to Marin.

This book tells the story of what happened behind closed doors. What kind of leader was Sanna Marin? How did she change during her tumultuous ministerial years, and how did she become an international superstar?