Maria Turtschaninoff
@turtschaninoff.bsky.social
Author of the Red Abbey Chronicles, sold to 30 countries , and Tangled Roots, published by Pushkin Press in the UK 2025
#Anaché, my YA fantasy which was first published in 2012, will be out in paperback in Swedish this fall! The novel is set in the same universe as my Red Abbey Chronicles, but is a standalone. And here’s the new cover by Sanna Mander! I love, love, love it!
August 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#Anaché, my YA fantasy which was first published in 2012, will be out in paperback in Swedish this fall! The novel is set in the same universe as my Red Abbey Chronicles, but is a standalone. And here’s the new cover by Sanna Mander! I love, love, love it!
Me, after finishing a lunch of creamy chanterelle sauce and Parmesan with spaghetti, and a piece of mud cake for dessert: ”It’s difficult to keep up my healthy lifestyle in summer.”
My 14-y-o: You’re keeping up your happy lifestyle.
Here’s to more happy lifestyles!
My 14-y-o: You’re keeping up your happy lifestyle.
Here’s to more happy lifestyles!
July 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Me, after finishing a lunch of creamy chanterelle sauce and Parmesan with spaghetti, and a piece of mud cake for dessert: ”It’s difficult to keep up my healthy lifestyle in summer.”
My 14-y-o: You’re keeping up your happy lifestyle.
Here’s to more happy lifestyles!
My 14-y-o: You’re keeping up your happy lifestyle.
Here’s to more happy lifestyles!
The guardian of the island
July 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The guardian of the island
I was a guest at Jurmo literary festival, a small-scale celebration of books in one of the most special places in Finland. Thank you for having me, I hope to visit this incredible island again!
July 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I was a guest at Jurmo literary festival, a small-scale celebration of books in one of the most special places in Finland. Thank you for having me, I hope to visit this incredible island again!
My midsummer: burned home-made pizza, strawberries, Taskmaster and Lonkero. Oh yeah.
June 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My midsummer: burned home-made pizza, strawberries, Taskmaster and Lonkero. Oh yeah.
It’s a good thing to be excited by! Here’s some Finnish spring for you.
May 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
It’s a good thing to be excited by! Here’s some Finnish spring for you.
Fountain pen
Coffee
Notebook
Rain
=writing
Coffee
Notebook
Rain
=writing
May 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Fountain pen
Coffee
Notebook
Rain
=writing
Coffee
Notebook
Rain
=writing
Look! Spotted in the wild at Hatchardsby @tulivirta.bsky.social !#TangledRoots
May 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Look! Spotted in the wild at Hatchardsby @tulivirta.bsky.social !#TangledRoots
Tangled Roots is out in the UK today! It’s a novel spanning 400 years and explores where we come from, the roots we put into the earth and the roots earth forms in us. It’s about love: love between humans and nature, between generations and between people.
#Arvejord #TangledRoots
#Arvejord #TangledRoots
April 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tangled Roots is out in the UK today! It’s a novel spanning 400 years and explores where we come from, the roots we put into the earth and the roots earth forms in us. It’s about love: love between humans and nature, between generations and between people.
#Arvejord #TangledRoots
#Arvejord #TangledRoots
My author copies of Tangled Roots arrived today! Out in the UK on April 10th! @pushkinpress.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My author copies of Tangled Roots arrived today! Out in the UK on April 10th! @pushkinpress.com
I just came home from a wonderful trip to Germany where I talked about #Moorhöhe (#Arvejord)! One performance in Berlin and three at Leipzig book fair! I can’t believe how many books I, an unknown author from a small country, got to sign! I love countries with ppl who read ❤️
March 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I just came home from a wonderful trip to Germany where I talked about #Moorhöhe (#Arvejord)! One performance in Berlin and three at Leipzig book fair! I can’t believe how many books I, an unknown author from a small country, got to sign! I love countries with ppl who read ❤️
And here’s the cover!
February 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And here’s the cover!
The most Nordic picture you’ll see :-D (The Prime Ministers of Norway, Denmark and Sweden and the President of Finland having dinner at the Danish PM’s residence). Imagine the leaders of any other countries sitting together this informally? (Photo by the Danish PM Mette Frederiksen)
January 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The most Nordic picture you’ll see :-D (The Prime Ministers of Norway, Denmark and Sweden and the President of Finland having dinner at the Danish PM’s residence). Imagine the leaders of any other countries sitting together this informally? (Photo by the Danish PM Mette Frederiksen)
I do a lot of my ”real” writing by hand and in fountain pen, too, not just my diary. It frees me from my inner demands of perfect first drafts. I have five Lamy pens with five different colors of ink.
January 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I do a lot of my ”real” writing by hand and in fountain pen, too, not just my diary. It frees me from my inner demands of perfect first drafts. I have five Lamy pens with five different colors of ink.
I no longer remember seeing the sun or not waking up to the sound of rain.
This is not how January in Finland is supposed to be.
This is not how January in Finland is supposed to be.
January 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I no longer remember seeing the sun or not waking up to the sound of rain.
This is not how January in Finland is supposed to be.
This is not how January in Finland is supposed to be.
I get up early, make my tea, sit down with my diary and fountain pen and start my day. This has become such an important part of my writing routine that if I skip it, I rarely get any work done that day.
January 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I get up early, make my tea, sit down with my diary and fountain pen and start my day. This has become such an important part of my writing routine that if I skip it, I rarely get any work done that day.
One of the great things about my job (writer) is that reading books is part of my job ❤️
And one of the great things about coming from a bilingual country with good language education in schools is that I can read in three languages.
And one of the great things about coming from a bilingual country with good language education in schools is that I can read in three languages.
January 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One of the great things about my job (writer) is that reading books is part of my job ❤️
And one of the great things about coming from a bilingual country with good language education in schools is that I can read in three languages.
And one of the great things about coming from a bilingual country with good language education in schools is that I can read in three languages.
6. Howl’s Moving Castle probably was my introduction to Diana Wynne Jones, and my favorite book of hers. I will always strive to infuse my work with the same type of mundane yet absolutely spellbinding magic!
January 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
6. Howl’s Moving Castle probably was my introduction to Diana Wynne Jones, and my favorite book of hers. I will always strive to infuse my work with the same type of mundane yet absolutely spellbinding magic!
5. Anne of Green Gables is my forever bosom friend! I even found great comfort in Anne’s House of Dreams as an adult when I experienced tragedy in the same way as Anne.
January 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
5. Anne of Green Gables is my forever bosom friend! I even found great comfort in Anne’s House of Dreams as an adult when I experienced tragedy in the same way as Anne.
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe honestly made me creep into every wardrobe I found, wishing it would take me to Narnia!
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe honestly made me creep into every wardrobe I found, wishing it would take me to Narnia!
3. The Little House in the Big Woods shows itself in my writing in so far that I often focus on things people do and make with their hands. I loved reading about how to make your own cheese or bullets!
January 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
3. The Little House in the Big Woods shows itself in my writing in so far that I often focus on things people do and make with their hands. I loved reading about how to make your own cheese or bullets!
2. Over Sea, Under Stone which showed me how to infuse our own reality with myth and legend.
January 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
2. Over Sea, Under Stone which showed me how to infuse our own reality with myth and legend.
1 . The Neverending Story which taught me how fantasy can illuminate such topics as grief, the desire to love and be loved and how you can get lost in your own imagination.
January 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
1 . The Neverending Story which taught me how fantasy can illuminate such topics as grief, the desire to love and be loved and how you can get lost in your own imagination.
This morning’s job: making sure all the foreign editions published of #Arvejord (#TangledRoots) so far are registered in Omasanasto so I can receive lending reimbursements from the libraries!
January 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This morning’s job: making sure all the foreign editions published of #Arvejord (#TangledRoots) so far are registered in Omasanasto so I can receive lending reimbursements from the libraries!