Home News Authors About Photo: Pekka Mustonen Rosa Liksom (born 1958 in Lapland, Finland) is a prize winning writer and two time candidate for The Nordic Prize of Literature, whose books have been translated into 18 languages. She is also a renowned painter and film maker. She is an expert on people who live in unconventional circumstances, on the borders of cultures. With "Passing Things" (2014) Rosa Liksom returns to very short prose, a genre she pioneered, and a medium in which she is still an undisputed master. AWARDS Winner of the Finlandia Prize 2011 Agent Susanne Widén susanne@hedlundagency.se Phone: +46 76-644 06 48 Rosa Liksom Winner of the Finlandia Prize 2011 ”Her pen is like an arctic knife with eastern flavours.” – Sofi Oksanen Books 2014 – Passing Things (Väliaikainen) Originally published in Finnish by Like. 175 pages. Genre Fiction/Short stories Rights sold Latvian/Zvaigzne Swedish/Wahlström&Widstrand Passing Things Original title: Väliaikainen Following the success of her Finlandia Prize-winning novel Compartment No. 6, Rosa Liksom returns to very short prose, a genre she pioneered, and a medium in which she is still an undisputed master. Passing Things is a quick-moving pageant of citizens of today, with all their worries and troubles and all the love burning in their hearts. A single parent, a spiritual guide, an election observer, an estate planner, a genealogist, a poacher, a tourist in Turkey, a returnee to Finland, a tipsy policemen, the world's greatest steel worker, a young shopper, a forgotten woman, a rejected and bitter man, these are its characters. Municipal mergers and the China phenomenon are discussed, the plight of the elderly is puzzled over, immigrants are eyed suspiciously, as are killer moose, angry bees, thieving wolverines, peacocks, and magpies. From this multivoiced, multiform testimony a single voice emerges, a soliloquy of modern Finnish society. Passing Things is a mirror on our mental condition in the here and now. If the image we see is as black as a polar night, it's not the mirror's fault – or Rosa Liksom's. She has an unflinching eye, an infallible ear, and a gift for writing about the joys and disappointments of ordinary people, which is a great good fortune for the rest of us. REVIEWS "... keep in mind that Rosa Liksom is already a classic. It is she who brought our literature the lightning quick short story as well as idiomatic language. For a single writer, these are quite sufficient qualifications." – Aamulehti, Tampere Finland. "Rosa Liksom has a fantastic ability to thoroughly master disparate genres: her novels and fragmentary prose form a large chapter in the history of modern form in Finnish literature." – Helsingin Sanomat "Liksom is the mother of Finnish flash fiction.” – Helsingin Sanomat 2012 – Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6) Hedlund Literary Agency Visiting address: Magdalena Hedlund Johanna Kinch Susanne Widén Box 2262 Tyska Brinken 19 magdalena@hedlundagency.se johanna@hedlundagency.se susanne@hedlundagency.se 103 16 Stockholm Directions Mobile: +46 70-669 05 68 Mobile: +46 70-713 42 07 Mobile: +46 76-644 06 48 Sweden