Northern dimension inspires worldwide

Interest in Finnish culture has grown steadily in recent years. Finnish music, literature, design, technology, nature and school system inspire world wild.

Our authors and illustrators have a strong personal voice, their dark humour and special way of looking at the world appeals to modern readers all over the world. Arto Paasilinna is uncontestedly the most successful Finnish author in the international scale. His amazing and hilarious novels have been translated into more than 40 languages. And we have an exiting list of new young voices!

WSOY is one of the biggest publishing houses in the Nordic countries. WSOY Foreign Rights represents international rights in fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young adult books, comics and filmrights.