Leena Lander

She writes novels in addition also for radio, television and theater. Her works have won several awards. In 1992 she won the Finnish Kiitos kirjasta - Mitali. There are translations into several languages. She lives with her ​​husband and three sons in southwestern Finland near Turku. In her novels of the child's perspective is given great room. It discusses this without convictions controversial issues, such as cooperation between Finland and the Germans in the Second World War, Finnish racism, emancipation, environmental destruction or alcoholism.

Life

Leena Lander grew in close proximity to a home for delinquent girls, where her father worked. She played with these girls and made ​​friends. As the imaginative Leena was given a typewriter at the age of eight, she began to write stories. At 15, her style seriously and her first novel was written it with 20 fins in their books their own childhood experiences with a.

Bibliography

  • A dedicated wife, ISBN 3442753325
  • The Unyielding, ISBN 3442734037
  • Let the storm come, ISBN 3442721334
  • The island of black butterflies, ISBN 3442721318
  • The farm in the woods, ISBN 3442727219
  • In the summer house, ISBN 3442727707
  • The shadow of the judge, ISBN 3442722160

Weblink

  • Literature by and about Leena Lander in the catalog that German national library
  • Author
  • Finn
  • Born in 1955
  • Woman
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