Nuori Voima

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Nuori Voima
Former editorsMartti-Tapio Kuuskoski
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyFive times a year
Founded1908;115 years ago (1908)
CompanyNuoren Voiman Liitto
Country Finland
Based in Helsinki
Language Finnish
Website 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]

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History and profile

Nuori Voima was founded in 1908. [1] [2] [3] The magazine was founded and published by the Nuoren Voiman Liitto (Finnish : The Union of Young Powers), a non-profit literature organization. [4] [5] It comes out 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] The magazine has also an annual poetry issue. [6]

Contributors and editors

In the early years a group of poets who would be known as Tulenkantajat (Finnish : Torch Bearers) from 1924 were the regular contributors of Nuori Voima. [7] Some of its significant international contributors include French philosophers Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault and 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. [8]

Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski served as the editor-in-chief of Nuori Voima. [3] Jukka Koskelainen and Jyrki Kiiskinen were among its former editors-in-chief, and the latter held the post between 1991 and 1994. [6]

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