Dear all,
some of you may know Riikka Pelo, my colleague at the Aalto University, Dept. of Film, Television and Scenography, Helsinki, Finland. Today, we received fantastic news. Riikka's novel "Our everyday life" won the main literature prize in Finland, worth 30,000 euros. Her novel tells a story about the awkvard relationship between the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva and her daughter Ariadna Efron. The novel portrays the mental landscape of Soviet Union during the period the 1920s to the 1940s. After the family’s exile in Paris, Tsetaeva, Efron and Tsetaeva’s husband Sergei Efron return to Moscow, where life under the watchful eye of Stalin is filled with difficulty and paranoia. (http://finlandtoday.fi/index.php?news&nid=131#.UpxpNLS_w9D)
Riikka is finalizing her doctoral thesis at our department. The research is grounded in her exploration on rhythmic practice of writing for the screen. The thesis includes an artistic part, the experimental screenplay “The Girl and the Death” based loosely on Georges Berdanos’s novel Mouchette (1937).
Congratulations!!
Kirsi Rinne
Aalto University
Helsinki, Finland
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