Pirkko Saisio, Iris Candelaria and Petri Toiviainen received the Cultural Foundation Award

Finnish The Cultural Foundation has been awarded by a writer Pirkko Saisiosoprano Iris Candelarian and professor Petri Toiviainen. Each prize is € 40,000.

Author Pirkko Saisio has published over 20 novels during his career. He has also written plays, film and television manuscripts and miniature musicals.

Saisio’s first work Lifestyle The release will be 50 years in the autumn. It depicted the life of a working family after the war in Kallio, Helsinki. He is also known for its autobiographical novel trilogy The smallest common to be shared (1998), Corresponding (2000) and Reddance (2003).

Iris Candelaria from Finno-Spanish is an opera singer who won the Lappeenranta Song Contest in 2023 the first prize shared. He has played roles at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the National Opera in Helsinki, where he is currently performing A cheerful widow Valenciennena.

Petri Toiviainen, Professor of Music at the University of Jyväskylä, is studying multidisciplinary the role of body and brain in the detection of music. He is currently leading the Finnish Academy of Finnish Music, Mind, Body and Brain Research.

Cash prize It is already third in Pirkko Saisio in a few weeks. At the beginning of February he was also awarded $ 20,000 Runeberg- and for $ 10,000 Guardprizes.

Readers of Helsingin Sanomat voted for Saisio’s Novel Red Divorce Millennium’s best domestic book in December.