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Iida Turpeinen

A Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentials of scientific research and by the offbeat anecdotes and meanderings from the history of science. Her debut novel, Beasts of the Sea (2023) was praised immediately upon its release as a world-class work, one that brings together a lost world and living literature: for it, she won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the Thank You For the Book Prize, and was nominated for the Finlandia Prize and the Torch-bearer Prize in Finland and the Premio Strega Europeo in Italy, among others.

 Iida Turpeinen

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Iida Turpeinen - autogramiáda

Book World Prague 2026

16:00 - 16:50

Skandinávský dům

Finská spisovatelka Iida Turpeinen bude podepisovat román na téma vymírání živočišných druhů "Poslední siréna", který v češtině v překladu Vladimíra Piskoře...

Friday, 15. 5. 2026

Nordic Literary Evening

Book World Prague 2026

19:00 - 20:50

Skandinávský dům, Velvyslanectví Norského království v Praze, Velvyslanectví Švédska, Velvyslanectví Finska

Danish, Finnish, Norwegian

A traditional event featuring Nordic authors will first present a discussion between Iida Turpeinen and Robert Zola Christensen on their books "The Last Siren"...

Friday, 15. 5. 2026