Annina Enckell (born 19 September 1957) is a Finnish award-winning
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
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screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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. Annina Enckell has written plays, radio plays, and TV- and feature film screenplays for children and adults in Swedish and Finnish. She is a screenwriter on the ''
Moomins on the Riviera
''Moomins on the Riviera'' (Finnish title: ''Muumit Rivieralla'') is a 2014 Finnish-French animated family comedy film directed by Xavier Picard and produced by Hanna Hemilä, who is also co-director. The film is based on ''Moomin'' comic strips ...
'' feature film. She received an award for “De bäst anpassade” at
Svenska Teatern, the Swedish National Theatre in Helsinki, and for the feature film ''Iris'' (directed by Ulrika Bengts), selected the best film at
Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival (2011). Enkcell is a graduate of
The Theatre Academy in Helsinki.
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Living people
1957 births
Writers from Helsinki
21st-century Finnish screenwriters
21st-century Finnish dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Finnish women writers
Finnish women dramatists and playwrights
Finnish women screenwriters
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