Opening Boundaries: Toward Finnish Heterolinational Literatures

Mehdi Ghasemi

Mehdi Ghasemi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, the University of Tampere and the Finnish Literature Society. One of his postdoctoral projects, entitled "Toward a More Inclusive Finnish Literature," aims to increase the visibility, readability and research on immigrant authors residing in Finland and authors of Finnish origin living in North America. In parallel, Ghasemi has written fiction in the hybrid genre of noveramatry, which is a combination of novel, drama and poetry all in one line. He has already published three fiction books, entitled Flight to Finland: A Noveramatry, How I Became a W Finn: A Noveramatry and Finnish Russian Border Blurred: A Noveramatry. The forth one, entitled A Farewell to the Earth and Kepler-438b: A Noveramatry, is forthcoming.