Have been wondering how different it must be to publish and read books in bigger languages, Finnish is spoken by 6 million people and the amount of books being published is kind of overwhelming for me still. Do your local bookstores carry local novels or is there more competition of readership nationwide and globally etc? Does it show in how books with very specified topics get picked up by publishers or how they get found by readers? Like novels touching on the specific trauma of maybe 20 000 people etc. This wondering was brought to you by the national book prizes today, the winner of the nonfiction award had started looking into his family history and into the circa hundred people who stayed behind in Karelia when it was won by the Soviet Union. Do you stumble across these more specific books or do you have to dig yourself to find books past the western canon and global bestsellers? Kind of a naive question but I’m genuinely curious!
by kivinilkka