Nuori Voima Explained
| Previous Editor: | Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski |
| Frequency: | Five times a year |
| Category: | Literary magazine |
| Company: | Nuoren Voiman Liitto |
| Country: | Finland |
| Based: | Helsinki |
| Language: | Finnish |
| Website: | Nuori Voima |
Nuori Voima (Finnish: Youthful Vigor) is a Finnish literary and cultural magazine which has been published since 1908. It is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Both the magazine and its parent organization, Nuoren Voiman Liitto, are among the well-respected institutions in Finland.
History and profile
Nuori Voima was founded in 1908.[1] [2] [3] The magazine was founded and published by the Nuoren Voiman Liitto (Finnish: The Union of Young Powers), a non-profit literature organization.[4] [5] It comes out five times a year.[1] The magazine produces thematic issues[3] and features literary work and articles written about art, philosophy, culture and society.[1] It has a twice per year literary critic supplement, Kritiikki.[1] The magazine has also an annual poetry issue.
Contributors and editors
In the early years a group of poets who would be known as Tulenkantajat (Finnish: Torch Bearers) from 1924 were the regular contributors of Nuori Voima.[6] Some of its significant international contributors include French philosophers Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan.[2] The magazine also featured work by Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin and Peter Sloterdijk.[2] Finnish poet Olavi Paavolainen started his career in the magazine.[7]
Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski served as the editor-in-chief of Nuori Voima.[3] Jukka Koskelainen and Jyrki Kiiskinen were among its former editors-in-chief, and the latter held the post between 1991 and 1994.[8]
Notes and References
- Web site: Nuori Voima magazine. Nuoren Voiman Liitto. 9 April 2017. 28 April 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130428091346/http://www.nuorenvoimanliitto.fi/international/nuori+voima-magazine/.
- Book: Petra Broomans. Ester Jiresch. The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields: Transmitting Preferences and Images in Media, Networks and Translation. 2011. Barkhuis. 95. https://books.google.com/books?id=vTyuDYUzXngC&pg=PA95. 978-94-91431-06-7. Nuoren Voiman Liitto and Nihil Interit as Cultural and Literary Transmitters in the 1990s and 2000s. Lieven Ameel. Groningen.
- Web site: Interview – Greek writers in Finland. 9 April 2017. 2015. Chronos. https://web.archive.org/web/20150211053504/http://www.chronosmag.eu/index.php/m-t-kuuskoski-interview-greek-writers-in-finland-271-222015.html. 11 February 2015. dead.
- Book: Harri Veivo. Benedikt Hjartarson. 463. Andrea Kollnitz. Per Stounbjerg. Tania Ørum. Tania Ørum. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950. 2019. Brill Rodopi. Leiden. 978-90-04-38829-1. 36. 193080083. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388291_026. Trajectories, Circulations and Geographical Configurations of the Avant-Garde and Modernism in Finland, 1922–1939. 10.1163/9789004388291_026.
- Web site: Finland's Foremost Advocate of Contemporary Literature. Nuoren Voiman Liitto. 9 April 2017. 28 April 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130428091231/http://www.nuorenvoimanliitto.fi/international/.
- Book: Lieven Ameel. Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890-1940. 2014. Finnish Literature Society. Helsinki. 978-952-222-567-2. 117. 10.21435/sflit.8 .
- Book: Günter Berghaus. International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. 2016. https://books.google.com/books?id=SDFBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA127. 127. De Gruyter. 978-3-11-046595-2. Reception of Futurism in Finland: Olavi Paavolainen's Writings. 6. Hannu K. Riikonen. Berlin; Boston, MA.
- Book: Outi Oja. Leena Kirstinä. Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature. 2012. Finnish Literature Society. Helsinki. 978-952-222-510-8. 113,131. https://doi.org/10.21435/sflit.6. From Autofictive Poetry to the New Romanticism The Guises of Finnish Poetry in the 1990s and 2000s. 10.21435/sflit.6.
