Johanna Sinisalo

Johanna Sinisalo (born Aila Johanna Sinisalo; June 22, 1958 ) is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. Since starting her writing career with science fiction and fantasy short stories, Other than for short stories and novels, Sinisalo has written comics, screenplays for TV and radio, and edited anthologies. at the University of Tampere. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a copywriter and an executive of an advertising agency. She has won several Atorox Awards for her short stories. Her short story Baby Doll was nominated for the Nebula award in 2009.

Sinisalo's first novel, Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (Not Before Sundown, published in English in 2003) was published in 2000. The book has been translated to several language, The movie rights to the novel were acquired by Carter Smith in 2006, but the project since fell through and the movie rights have been since been acquired by Tuppence Middleton in 2022.

Since her first novel, Sinisalo has written several novels including Linnunaivot (2008, published in English in 2010 titled Birdbrain), Enkelten verta (2011, published in English in 2014 titled The Blood of the Angels), and Auringon ydin (2013, published in English in 2016 titled The Core of the Sun). Her works have been translated to 20 languages.

Sinisalo has worked as a screenwriter in several Finnish TV and radio productions. She also worked on the screenwriting team of Iron Sky, a 2012 comic-science-fiction. The movie had the biggest budget of any production in Finnish film history at the time of its release.

Notable awards and honors Finlandia Prize for literature in 2000, for Not Before Sundown Atorox Award for best Finnish science fiction short story in 1986 for Suklaalaput Pro Finlandia Medal, Order of the Lion of Finland in 2022