When I studied literature I didn’t really come to think that behind the books there might be other people than the author. I couldn’t even dream up a profession that would be the answer to my dreams. A publisher backs the author, and makes their dream come true. The publisher…

Thanks to the University of Helsinki I got to study in Paris, one of the first to be offered an Erasmus student exchange. I had earlier spent a year travelling around France doing voluntary work, to the point where the French lifestyle had become thoroughly familiar. My year spent at…

I was working for practically the whole of my study time, so the University preserved its novelty value right up to the final course. The degree-awarding ceremony crowns the years of study in a hilarious way and so stays in the mind as a bright memory. I would like to…

I dream that Finland would come to realize the entire identity of a small country resides in its culture. We would be nothing without the burning brilliance of Finnish writers, artists and musicians, nor would our art or science have got anywhere without the efforts of the nineteenth-century Fennoman movement…