Interview with Miki Liukkonen about O and The Master of Silence

Miki Liukkonen (b. 1989) made his literary breakthrough with the astonishingly accomplished novel O (WSOY, 2017) - an encyclopaedic narrative of ordinary people and extraordinary events, neuroses, stubborn fixed ideas, and irrational things that become the most-talked-about literary tour de force in recent years. The novel was shortlisted for the 2017 Finlandia Prize for Fiction, and for the Runeberg Prize in 2018.
He compares his work to that of David Lynch, succeeding in commercialising the uncommercial. Liukkonen is a multi-talented artist, who feels equally at home in music and poetry as he does in literature.
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