Leena Krohn

LEENA KROHN  (1947) is one of the most prominent contemporary Finnish authors. Her literary opus of over thirty books consist of novels, short stories, children’s novels and essays. Her first novel Tainaron, named after an imaginary land, was published in 1985. The main topics of her works are people’s relations with themselves and the world surrounding them, morals and borders between reality and illusions – all these topics are addressed through a prism of observation of different kinds of artificial intelligence. She has won several Finnish and international literary prizes and her books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages.
She will perform in Ljubljana on 29 February 2012.

Leena Krohn: FALSE WINDOW
False Window is a story about a 50-something philosopher who buys a water-floating chamber in order to get a room for thinking. He soon finds out than it can earn him money, too: he publishes an advertisement that he accepts customers who need a philosopher's advice or want to talk. Customers appear soon, each of them having their own, often very strange story or question which the philosopher cannot always answer. In a penetrating, discreet manner, the author wonders about the nature of reality and the distinction between true and false, lie and truth and dreams and wakefulness. The novel creates the world which differs from ours but which is still somehow familiar, as well as unveils the potential future of our society which seems uncomfortably near. Krohn's writing is marked by clear language and sophisticated sense of humour.