Lonely Landscapes

Anna-Liisa Haakana is a Finnish novelist best known for her realistic stories set in Sápmi (better known in English by its colonial name “Lapland”) during the 1980s. Haakana’s teenage protagonists, Ykä in Ykä Yksinäinen (Ykä the Lonely, 1980) and Anitra in Ykköstyttö (Number One Girl, 1981), feel l...

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Published in:	Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Main Author:	Lydia Kokkola
Format:	Article
Language:	Danish
Published:	Svenska Barnboksinstitutet 2024-04-01
Subjects:	Finnish YA fiction loneliness Anna-Liisa Haakana way-finding queer theory topophilia
Online Access:	https://www.barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/885

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