Virve Sammalkorpi (born 1969) is a Finnish writer. She was born in Helsinki and attended the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

. Her first book ''Sinkkuleikki'' was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Prize in 1999. In 2003, she was nominated for the Runeberg Prize for ''Metsän keskellä maja''. ''Paflagonian perilliset'' (2016) won the Savonia Literature Prize and has been translated into English by

Peirene Press Peirene Press is an independent publishing house based in Bath. Established by the novelist and journalist Meike Ziervogel, Peirene publishes literary fiction in translation from all over the world. Their books are regularly listed for significa ...

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Finnish novelists 1969 births Living people Finnish women novelists Date of birth missing (living people) Writers from Helsinki {{Finland-writer-stub