Winner of the Finlandia Prize 2022

Finlandia is the most prestigious literary award in Finland by the Finnish Book Foundation. The Finlandia Prize in Fiction, the oldest of the three categories, was awarded today to Iida Rauma for her book 'Hävitys'.


My photo and comments yesterday are inevitably related to the theme of today's prize winning book. The fears and suffering and pain of children in the world are not taken seriously anymore than the fear and suffering of the animals in human hands have ever been considered worthy of any attention. Children live at the mercy of grownups, and animals live at the mercy of humans.