Bibliography
Wolf Mass
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Author: Mirkka Lappalainen
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Mirkka Lappalainen, b. 1975, is Finland’s most interesting historian. She is a Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki, a columnist and book critic in Finland’s most influential newspaper, The Helsingin Sanomat, and a prize-winning author. Her dissertation, “Suku, Valta, Suurvalta” (Family, Power, State) appeared in 2005 and was voted Best History Book of the Year 2005. In 2006, her collection of essays on 17th century cultural history, “The World’s Heaviest Coin”, was published and awarded with “The Best Scientific Book of the Year award” 2006. Lappalainen has been praised for her intriguing narrative style of writing and often likened to Peter Englund. Her new narrative non-fiction “Susimessu” (“Wolf Mass”), about the civil war in Sweden and Finland in the 1590s, was published 2009 and won the Lauri Jäntti Prize. The Jäntti Foundation awards the Prize annually to the author of a significant Finnish non-fiction book.
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“Lappalainen’s book is popular science at its best.” Helsingin Sanomat - |
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