Maritta Lintunen

Maritta Lintunen is an award-winning Finnish author whose acclaimed body of work spans poetry, short fiction, and novels. Renowned for her lyrical prose, psychological depth, and keen understanding of human nature, she explores themes of memory, family, identity, and belonging. Her fiction combines literary sophistication with emotional immediacy.

Trained as a musician and holding a Master of Music degree, Maritta Lintunen brings a rare lyrical precision to her prose, combining psychological insight with a finely tuned ear for language.

Maritta Lintunen’s literary works have been nominated for various literary prizes, including the Best Debut of the Year Prize, the Runeberg Prize, and the Savonia Literary Prize.
Lintunen’s poetry and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, German, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, Swedish and Udmurt. The short story Passiontide from The Peephole, was selected for Best European Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, USA).

Author portrait by Sara Pihlaja