Author Petra Rautiainen. (1988) was born in a small town in Finland. She has a Master’s degree in History and Cultural Studies, and is currently working on her doctoral theses on representations of the Sámi in the Finnish media. She has also worked as a journalist and studied creative writing. Author Petra Rautiainen has travelled around the world. She has also studied in the UK and worked in Canada, New Zealand and Scotland. Since childhood, Rautiainen has traveled a lot in the North and Arctic area. She is inspired by the barren nature of the Arctics. She loves being in the nature and likes to hike. She has hiked in Lapland, but also in Iceland, Scotland and on the Faroe Islands. Now days she has a new traveler company: a small red miniaturepoodle Ruska (the name translates to autumn foliage).Petra is interested in equality issues, in minorities and their culture as well as in historic representations of difference that still influence our norms and ideas today. Author Petra Rautiainen – Translation sold so far to:Pushkin Press (English / UK & Australia, New-Zealand), Suhrkamp (German), Seuil (French), Marsilio Editori (Italian, 2 book deal), Meridiaan Uitgevers (Dutch, 2 book deal)Norstedts (Swedish), Gyldendal Norsk (Norwegian, 2 book deal), Modtryk (Danish, 2 book deal), Europakiadó (Hungarian), Paseka(Czech). Contact Petra Rautiainen. Petra Rautiainen´s debut novel LAND OF SNOW AND ASHES ( 8/2020) was the first Finnish debut novel that sold English translation rights prior publication. At the end of the year 2020 — only just after four months from release — translation rights was sold into 10 languages. Almost half of the confirmed publishing deals including also Rautiainen’s second novel that she is currently writing. Author Petra Rautiainen
Petra Rautiainen
Author
Author Petra Rautiainen (1988) was born in a small town in Finland. She has a Master’s degree in History and Cultural Studies, and is currently working on her doctoral theses on representations of the Sámi in the Finnish media. She has also worked as a journalist and studied creative writing.
Rautiainen has travelled around the world. She has also studied in the UK and worked in Canada, New Zealand and Scotland.
Since childhood, Rautiainen has traveled a lot in the North and Arctic area. She is inspired by the barren nature of the Arctics. She loves being in the nature and likes to hike. She has hiked in Lapland, but also in Iceland, Scotland and on the Faroe Islands. Now days she has a new traveler company: a small red miniaturepoodle Ruska (the name translates to autumn foliage).
Petra is interested in equality issues, in minorities and their culture as well as in historic representations of difference that still influence our norms and ideas today.
Photo: Jonne Räsänen
Awards and award nominations
Land of Snow and Ashes has won one of the biggest literature prize in Finland — Savonia Prize and has received four literary prize nominations: Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the Book of the Year prize by Finnish bookstore Suomalainen Kirjakauppa, the Savonia Prize and is nominated the Lapland Literature Prize 2021.
Land of snow and ashes has also been nominated in abroad:
In UK: Petrovna Awards: Rautiainen has been shortlisted for the Petrona Award in 2023, which recognises the best Scandinavian crime fiction novels published in the UK / Land of Snow and ashes
In Sweden:
Adlibris: The debute novel of the year 2022/ Et Land av snö Ett land av snö och aska
