Helsinki Literary Agency

30/09/2025

Happy International Translation Day to all our fantastic translators - we couldn't do this without you! 💐✨️

18/09/2025

The Lit-Quest project continues! Last week Helsinki Literary Agency hosted the Literary Professionals’ Residency in Helsinki for three very lovely and talanted publishers, Sigita Pūkienė, Hannah Chukwu and Bettina Wörgötter! ✨✨✨

We kicked off the week with inspiring lectures from our guest speakers. The themes were:

• From Gatekeeping to Door-Opening: Rethinking Equity in Publishing
• Story Fishers: A Glance into the Deep Waters of Small Literature
• Is it the End of the Book as we know it?

We also had some wonderful presentations from our Finnish collegues and friends. Aleksi Pöyry, publisher at , presented the landscape of Finnish literature. Tiia Strandén, director at , gave a presentation on Finnish literature exports, and Roland Juthman from , shared a wonderful presentation on publishing books for readers with learning difficulties.

The week also left room for some Finnish experiences. Our guests enjoyed the outdoor sauna in Furuvik and visited the impressive Helsinki Central Library Oodi.

It was truly a wonderful week filled with interesting conversations and ideas for the future. We also had the pleasure of interviewing all three guests about their early careers and the insights they’ve gained from this residency, so keep an eye out! The interviews will be published soon on our website. 💚

27/08/2025

Several of our wonderful illustrators are in the spotlight at the Kollektivet exhibition at the Helsinki Art Hall. Check out the news on our website! 🎊

The Helsinki Art Hall is hosting the Kollektivet exhibition, a collection of illustrations from Finnish children’s books penned by dozens of the most prominent and most-loved Finnish illustrators, and illustrations by several HLA illustrators have made the list. The works of Maija Hurme, Sanna Pel...