Literature|A total of 25 books on the list includes Miki Liukkonen and Sofi Oksanen’s novels.
French Cultural Magazine Télérama published in its latest issue The list From the best books of the 21st century, and as many as two Finnish books rose to the list.
So the idea was to choose the top 25 novels for the past 25 years. Télérama’s editorial asked for an opinion from 60 bookcase experts in France and the rest of the world. The list was created based on their answers.
The list 17th place is Miki Liukkonen novel O (2017) and in the divided 20th place Sofi Oksanen novel Purifying (2008). Liukkonen’s novel French was published in 2021 and French in Oksanen’s novel in 2010.
With a cleaning of 20th place is the Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarrin The novel published in 2021 The most secret memory of menwhich appeared Marja Luoma and Sampsa Peltonen as a translation under the name The deepest secrets of men In 2022.
Leaf by Oksanen Purifying It is “a powerful and furious tragedy, but not without compassion.”
In o Liukkonen, on the other hand, creates a stunning narrative labyrinth while providing a fun and powerful reflection on the dizzyingness of humanity. “
Teleraman The list in the first place is Roberto Bolañon 2666 from 2004, second W. G. Sebaldin Austerlitz (2001) and third Svetlana Aleksiyevichin The end of the Soviet man (2013). Other writers on the list are, for example Philip Roth, Haruki Murakami, Maggie Nelson, Herta Müller and Joan Didion.