Sofi Oksanen has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010

The Finnish author Sofi Oksanen has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 for her work 'Puhdistus' ('Cleasning').

About the Literature Prize

The prize has been awarded since 1962 for a work of imaginative literature written in one of the Nordic languages. This can be a novel, a play, a collection of poetry, short stories or essays that meets high literary and artistic standards.

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