Arja & Emma Puikkonen

Author

Arja Puikkonen (b. 1948) is an accomplished writer, who won the Finlandia Junior Prize in 2003. The Cage of Sounds was written together with her daughter, author Emma Puikkonen (b. 1974) whose adult novel was also shortlisted for the Finlandia Prize in 2016. They describe the writing process as smooth and seamless when working with someone you know so well.