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Pirkko Helena Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, ohjaaja ja näyttelijä. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. [1] Saisiolla on laaja ja monipuolinen kirjallinen tuotanto.
Pirkko Helena Saisio (born 16 April 1949) is a Finnish author, actress and director. She has also written under the pen names Jukka Larsson and Eva Wein. Saisio has a broad literary output, dealing with many kinds of texts from film screenplays all the way to librettos for the ballet.
Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional trilogy carries the reader through the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a girl who wanted to be a boy and started calling herself “her” when she was eight years of age.
Apr 25, 2023 · Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation from Finnish, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a series of farewells—to her mother, to the idealism of youth, to friends and lovers, and finally to her grown daughter.
Pirkko Saisio is a Finnish novelist, playwright and director who won the Finlandia Prize in 2003. Learn more about her works, awards and interview on this web page.
Interview with Pirkko Saisio. The “grand old troublemaker of Finnish fiction”, Pirkko Saisio, answers HLA’s questions. Your most recent book Prevarications is a mix of many various genres: fiction and metafiction, essay, memoirs, theatre, polemic…. It is quite personal, too – the word “confessions” is right there in the title for ...
Sep 8, 2003 · One morning in 2002, on an island off the coast of Finland, the narrator Pirkko Saisio tells her editor she’s accidentally deleted her latest manuscript, a book called The Red Book of Farewells. Whatever that book was is gone, but in its place is this story of a life: her life.
