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Kari Hotakainen

The Finnish writer has published over 20 works comprising novels, poems and books for children and young people since 1982. He has also written plays, radio dramas, newspaper columns and screenplays. Hotakainen has received the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, the Finlandia Prize, the Prix du Courrier International and the Prix Coup de Coeur, among others. His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. His first non-fiction book, The Unknown Kimi Räikkönen (2018), about the famous Formula 1 driver is the best-selling Finnish non-fiction work of all times and the rights to translate the book have so far been sold to 13 languages. In Prague, he will present his dystopian novel Tarina (Story).

 Kari Hotakainen