Tapani,
Re your message below:
> . . . here you can find an
> interview
> of Sipila and a few other Finnish writers in
English
>
> (including me):
>
> http://www.finpop.net
One thing that struck me was Sipila's comment about the small
market for Finnish-language fiction. It made me wonder
something, so I hope you'll forgive my ignorance.
How different are the Scandinavian languages from each other?
Are Danish, Swedish, and Finnish as similar to each other as,
say, American English, British English, and Australian
English, so that, although there'd be differences, people
from each place could generally understand each other, or are
they as different as, say, Italian and Spanish, which have
the same Latin roots but are still very different
languages?
And, presuming that they are similar enough that people from
each country can understand people from the other two, could
a Finnish novel find markets in Denmark and Sweden?
JIM DOHERTY
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