Welcome to Modern Finnish Writers!
The database includes the authors’ personal details and introduces their work. The sources selected for further reading are mainly web-based, but there are references to other documents as well. Some texts on these web pages have been especially written for the database by the authors. The English pages are not identical to the Finnish and Swedish ones, as they mainly focus on authors whose work has been translated into English.
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This section is only in Finnish!
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Won't you ever take up being a full-time woman,
it's nothing but menstruation cycles
pills and IUD's, make-up instructions
all abracadabra,
home-made sweetbread and floors
without a scrap, going from one special offer to another.
Living at the mercy of hearsay and chance.
You always have to be
some buttress, waiting with a memo in hand
what comes and why won't it yet.
A pair of mammary glands that can clean the house.
Sheet laundry is the fate.
Service is fine but what about the socks and panties?
Vallan Casanovat ("The Casanovas of Power" 1979)
Hurry up: Venus on the morning sky, reach your hand
so that the sun won't cover it, reach your hand
for eleven years we've been waiting
like donkeys for donkey's years, waiting in line like planets.
A miracle, if love then didn't blossom, seas, tides
wouldn't surge over us . . . I'll smear him with wine and
honey,
lick every inch of his skin
-- each second is dear, now take off your clothes,
fold on the chair those barriers that we've been wearing
damn the rows of buttons, walls of zips, calendars
that would hate our love,
there's no time to waste, now that finally I can
taste you without the cold camera eyes, without snoopers,
without love police that pry at our acts
having no idea what they might be.
Venus on the morning sky, you at an arm's distance from me
what a fiery spiral: I don't know where it will take us
when we're now stars in the same constellation,
speak to my ear of the pain and the beauty.
translated by Kirsti Simonsuuri
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