Kjell Westö

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Kjell Anders Westö, born August 6, 1961, in Helsinki, is a Finnish-Swedish author. He made his debut as a poet in 1986 but quickly switched to writing short stories and eventually to novels. He made his breakthrough with the novel Drakarna över Helsingfors (1996), which together with Vådan av att vara Skrake (2000), Där vi en gång gått (2006) and Gå inte ensam ut i natten (2009) form a suite of stand-alone novels about Helsinki. Westö received the Finlandia Prize in 2006 for Där vi en gång gått and in 2014 he was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hägring 38.

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Yellow Sulphur Sky Trailer (2021)

05 November 2021

In his youth, the author Frej has already found a deep connection and passion with an upper-class girl, Stella Rabell, that has lasted between them through the decades.

Miehen sydän Trailer (2004)

05 December 2004

Harri, a usually calm middle-aged man, loses his temper at a bar. His behavior towards the bartender Raija weighs on his mind, so he returns to make things up to her.

Kites Over Helsinki Trailer (2001)

07 September 2001

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s.

Where Once We Walked Trailer (2011)

28 October 2011

The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.