Author: Selja Ahava
 
  
Selja Ahava (born in 1974) graduated with a degree in Dramaturgy from the Threatre Academy of Helsinki in 2001. She has written film scripts, a TV series and a radio play. She has also written works that contain a combination of text, space and performance.

Seija Ahava lived in London for five years and has since settled in Porvoo, where she renovates an old wooden house and raises her children.

Ahava has been awarded a grant of 5,000 euros from the Laila Hirvisaari foudation for her first novel, The Diary of the Lost (orig. Eksyneen muistikirja). The annual award is given to help a proven Finnish author, at the start of their career , to write books which are moving, of high quality, and which feel authentic.

 
Bibliography
2010, The Diary Of The Lost