Liukkonen combined the winds of international experimental literature with a virtuoso command of the Finnish language.
Author Miki Liukkonen has died, says publishing house WSOY in its announcement.
Liukkonen (b. 1989) died on July 4. The cause of death is unknown. He was born and went to school in Oulu, where he graduated from Madetoja Music High School in 2009.
In the same year, he won the JH Erko writing competition. Liukkonen’s first collection of poems White poems was published in 2011 and was nominated for Helsingin Sanomat’s first book award.
Liukkonen had time even in his short lifetime, he wrote a respectable output: three poetry collections, five novels and a picture book written for adults.
In them, he combined the winds of international experimental literature with a virtuoso command of the Finnish language.
A mammoth novel O (2017) achieved several award nominations, including the Finlandia nomination for fiction. In its French version, Le Monde magazine called it “a learned labyrinth and a magnetic book monster”.
His great novel Life: Preface (2021) was published in addition to the regular version as the author’s unabridged institution. The work was nominated for the Tulenkantaja and Botnia awards.
In 2022, written by Miki Liukkonen, Ville Rannan illustrated work Johnny Mitten & Ville-Valle on the edge of the gorge. The book was published under the name of Silvia Classici.
The novel will be published posthumously in September 2023 Guest mode.