Petri Salin

Petri Salin lives in Helsinki. He’s published a plethora of short stories, essays, articles and critiques mostly in different science fiction and crime story magazines during the last two decades.

Petri Salin: The Other Woman

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Petri Salin is a bilingual author who writes both in Finnish and Swedish. And, when the whim takes him, as it sometimes does, in English. Among his special interests are Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and William Shakespeare, about whom he’s written both fact and fiction. Occasionally he writes about classical music, mostly Wagner. He’s published two short story collections, Frozen Cocytus (Jäätynyt Kokytos, 2009) and Thirty-third chimpanzee (Kolmaskymmenes kolmas simpanssi, 2010), and a crime novel The Other Woman (Toinen nainen, 2009).

Apart from prose Salin regularly writes audio drama for the Finnish broadcasting company YLE’s Swedish language Radio Theatre. His audio dramas have been translated into several languages and awarded the Nordic Radio Theatre Prize. He also writes plays.

Salin’s play for children, Biggles Eats a Banana (Biggles äter en banan), is a part of a Nordic theatre project and translated into the different languages of the Nordic countries, where it may be performed for free by amateur theatrical companies.

Original name: Toinen nainen
Publisher: turbator 2009
109 pages
Softcover 110 x 180 mm
ISBN 978-952-5666-40-3
Cover illustration: Mika Myyry