Nuori Voima

Nuori Voima (Finnish: Youthful Vigor) is a Finnish literary and cultural magazine which has been published since 1908. It is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.[1] Both the magazine and its parent organization, Nuoren Voiman Liitto, are among the well-respected institutions in Finland.[2]

Nuori Voima
Former editorsMartti-Tapio Kuuskoski
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyFive times a year
Year founded1908 (1908)
CompanyNuoren Voiman Liitto
CountryFinland
Based inHelsinki
LanguageFinnish
WebsiteNuori Voima

History and profile

Nuori Voima was founded in 1908.[1][2][3] The magazine is part of Nuoren Voiman Liitto, a non-profit literature organization.[4] It is published five times a year.[1] The magazine produces thematic issues[3] and features literary work and articles written about art, philosophy, culture and society.[1] It has a twice per year literary critic supplement, Kritiikki.[1]

Some of the significant international contributors to Nuori Voima include French philosophers Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault as well as Jacques Lacan.[2] The magazine also featured work by Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin and Peter Sloterdijk.[2] Finnish poet Olavi Paavolainen started his career in the magazine.[5]

Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski served as the editor-in-chief of Nuori Voima.[3]

References
  1. "Nuori Voima magazine". Nuoren Voiman Liitto. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. Lieven Ameel (2011). "Nuoren Voiman Liitto and Nihil Interit as Cultural and Literary Transmitters in the 1990s and 2000s". In Petra Broomans; Ester Jiresch (eds.). The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields: Transmitting Preferences and Images in Media, Networks and Translation. Groningen: Barkhuis. p. 95. ISBN 978-94-91431-06-7.
  3. "Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski Editor-in-chief of Nuori Voima, a literary-philosophical review". Chronos. 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  4. "Finland's Foremost Advocate of Contemporary Literature". Nuoren Voiman Liitto. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  5. Hannu K. Riikonen (2016). "Reception of Futurism in Finland: Olavi Paavolainen's Writings". In Günter Berghaus (ed.). International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Vol. 6. Berlin; Boston, MA: De Gruyter. p. 127. ISBN 978-3-11-046595-2.
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