This is the home page of the Finnish author Joonas Konstig.

My books:

• Vaaran vuodet (The Danger Years), WSOY 2020. A thriller about the post-war Finland of 1945.
• Vuosi herrasmiehenä (Year as a Gentleman), WSOY 2017. Autofiction where I learn what it means to be a gentleman and for one year strive to become one.
• Pyhä ruoka (Sacred Food) Kosmos 2016. Nonfiction book about why we are so confused about food nowadays.
• Perkele (Gummerus 2015). A novel about heavy metal, love and death & the 21st century
• Totuus naisista (The Truth About Women) Novel, Gummerus 2013.
• Kaikki on sanottu (All Is Said). Novel, Gummerus 2011.
• Ahneet ja viattomat (The Greedy And The Innocent). Short story collection, Gummerus 2008.

Translations:

• Sallijaskond versus väärtuskonservatiivid (Mitä mieltä Suomessa saa olla) eesti keel (Kulle Raig) Kirjastus K&K, 2017
• Short story The Right Place (Sopiva paikka) in English in Words Without Borders August 2014 issue, A New North – Contemporary Writing from Finland: online here.

• Short story Rådjurens himmel (Kauriiden taivas) in Swedish / på svenska: Finland berättar: Rådjurens himmel. Tjugofyra noveller. (Stockholm: Tranan 2013)
• Short story Die Weidenkätzchen (Pajunkissat) un German / auf Deutsch in Junge Literatur in Europa 2009 (Greifswald: Hans Werner Richter-Stiftung, 2010)
• Short story Der Neue (Uusi kaveri) in German / auf Deutsch in Nachtlandschaften (Berlin: Saxa Verlag 2009)

• Short story Rövaren in English, Japanese and Chinese: magazine Welcome to Finland, summer 2009.

Contact me: konstigblog(a)gmail.com

Photo: Sanna Einola