Idolizing authorship: Literary celebrity and the ...
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Intellectual. Goth. Sofi Oksanen (1977) Sanna Lehtonen Imagine Finland – a small nation, less than a hundred years old, on the northeastern outskirts of Europe. A country where national identity is built on an eccentric mixture of celebratory discourses: its education system, its engineers (behind the Nokia wonder), its heroes of the Second World War, its world champions in ice hockey, and an innate perseverance that allows its people to survive where others might not. This is a place ...