Entries from October 2006

October 17, 2006

The birth of a copycat

On Friday 13th October, Jone Nikula and Ari Halttunen published the first edition of their brand new free magazine that will be distributed across Finnish cities and we hope that it will bring them bad luck. The familiar name of this new magazine is ‘Ovi’.
Yes, they have stolen our name, a name we have built [...]

October 12, 2006

“Minä elän” Finnish literature

This is an article published in the last issue of the Ovi magazine – Ovi lehti – TheOviMagazine

To write an article about Finnish literature, especially about Alexis Kivi, is something I found very difficult. I think the main reason was not that there is a lack of rich Finnish literature, on the contrary, but mainly [...]