Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen, who has Estonian roots, may win next year's Nordic Literature Prize for her novel Purge, which talks about the recent past of Estonia through the story of a family and shows the effect violence and fear have on the human psyche.|
Oksanen's Purge has already won the Finlandia and Runeberg prizes. The list of candidates for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council to be issued next year is: Finland |
Novel about Estonia nominated for Nordic Literature Prize
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The Literature Prize Committee of the Nordic Council will decide who will win the prize in the end of March next year in Helsinki. The laureate will receive the prize and the envelope for DKK 350,000 at the Nordic summit that will be held in Reykjavik in November 2010. |