Words and language - never-ending adventure.
Finland and Finnish language = Finnish literature.
How much is it known in the world? Not much.
A city called Turku? Not very famous.
Has Turku something to offer? For sure, such a rude question!
Like what? For example Finnish literature.
...so rebellious, so unique, so Finnish, so rich.
About the project
Because of my studies on HUMAK, I needed to do a project for my independent studies course. I decided to focus on literature. There is couple of reasons why literature. Back home I am studying theater management, and I am in close touch with literature. I consider literature as a "window" through culture. Finns literature was something unexplored and attractive. I wanted to know about it more. Me and my classmate got opportunity to make interviews with people who live in Turku and somehow work in literature field. It happened because we got contacts on these people from our teacher who is also writing and works with literature.
At first I wanted to focus in my interviews on underground vs. commercial literature, interaction between Turku/ Finland/ Europe, writer´ s identity. However, as I did interviews, it was more spontaneous and often interesting things came up. So on the end, it might be sometimes random :-). My goal was to make an overview on literature scene in Turku. I think I have achieved it, since there are clearly some points, in which opinions of people which I interviewed, are meeting.
