{"id":277536,"date":"2010-04-01T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/04\/01\/sofi-oksanen-wins-the-nordic-prize\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:40:58","slug":"sofi-oksanen-wins-the-nordic-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/04\/01\/sofi-oksanen-wins-the-nordic-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofi Oksanen Wins the Nordic Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sofi Oksanen, author of <em>Purge<\/em>, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yle.fi\/uutiset\/news\/2010\/03\/sofi_oksanen_wins_nordic_council_literature_prize_1571143.html\">winning the 2010 Nordic Prize.<\/a> From the press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen has won this year\u2019s Nordic Council Literature Prize for her novel Puhdistus (Purge). The prize is worth 47,000 euros.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oksanen&#8217;s third novel, Purge, tells the story of one family through the tragic experiences of its women. Purge was first born as a play staged with great success at the Finnish National Theatre in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The prize jury said that in her novel Oksanen combined historical subject matter of the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union with a modern global problem, human trafficking in the Baltic Sea area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oksanen also won the prestigious Finlandia prize in 2008 and the Runeberg Prize for literature last year for the book. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oksanen will be at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/author.php\/prmAID\/1061\/prmID\/1984\"><span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> World Voices Festival<\/a> and I&#8217;m hoping to have a chance to interview her for the Reading the World Podcast. (Speaking of which, anyone want to co-host a few <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> World Voices interviews with me?)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/17-ilf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/454.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sofi Oksanen, author of Purge, for winning the 2010 Nordic Prize. From the press release: Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen has won this year\u2019s Nordic Council Literature Prize for her novel Puhdistus (Purge). The prize is worth 47,000 euros. Oksanen&#8217;s third novel, Purge, tells the story of one family through the tragic experiences of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[31786,8486,2806,31776,31766],"class_list":["post-277536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-grove-atlantic","tag-nordic-prize","tag-pen-world-voices","tag-purge","tag-sofi-oksanen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348886,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277536\/revisions\/348886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}