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Front page photographs

In conjunction with the What Could Kill the Book? exhibition, pupils from the upper secondary schools of Vaskivuori and Herttoniemi Coeducational School asked famous Finns to list their most beloved books. Chef-author-translator Sami Garam listed such works as Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman, and comic artist
Kaisa Leka the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. University of Helsinki Chancellor Ilkka Niiniluoto named Helmi Krohn’s children’s book Hipsuvarvas autiolla saarella as a childhood favourite.
Book cover digitisation: National Library

The exhibition also showcased predictions for the future from the work
Kirja tienhaarassa – Vuonna 2020 by Kai Ekholm and Yrjö Repo.
Photograph: National Library of Finland / Kari Timonen

Table of contents’ photographs

Four of the nine reliefs by Walter Runeberg (1838–1920) – History, Theology, Law and Astronomy – placed on the outside wall of the National Library Rotunda building. Photograph: National Library of Finland / Kari Timonen


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