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SOFI OKSANEN (1977 - ) |
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Nationality: Finnish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Sofi Oksanen (born January 7, 1977) is a Finnish contemporary writer. She was born in Jyvaskyla. Her father is Finnish and her mother is Estonian. So far, Oksanen has published three novels, one an international best seller and a play. She has received several awards for her literary work
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Sofi Oksanen
Purge | ||
| 1st Produced: | La MaMa First Floor Theatre | 11 Feb 2011 | ||||
Organisations: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124698 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Sofi Oksanen | |||||
Synopsis: | With Purgefirst a play, then a novelSofi Oksanen has established herself as one of the most important voices of her generation. Declared Estonia's 'Person of the Year' in 2009, she is the first author to win both of Finland's most prestigious literary prizes (The Finlandia Award and The Runeberg), and the novel (published in the U.S. in April 2010) received rave reviews. The play premiered at the Finnish National Theater in 2007 before coming to New York for its American premiere. Through the stories of two women dogged by their own shameful past, Purge deals with a chapter in Estonia's history which is on the verge of being forgotten or denied: the Soviet annexation of the country after World War II, and its accompanying effects of rape, torture, deportation and murder. The play is set in 1992, only three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and one year following Estonia's independence. When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, opens her door to Zara, a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, she sets the stage for the re-opening of old wounds from the worst years of Estonia's Soviet occupation. A photo Zara carries soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide's home is no coincidence. Both survivors, the women engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other's motives. What emerges is a powerful and suspenseful family drama of rivalry, lust, betrayal and loss. | |||||
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