Watch the live broadcast at 14:00 from the Jyväskylä Book Fair – seven writers on trial

More than a hundred authors will appear at the Jyväskylä Book Fair on Saturday and Sunday. Seven of them also visit Yle Jyväskylä’s live Areena broadcast.

Helena Petäistö looks straight into the camera with a smile.  Behind him are tables with stacks of books.
Helena Petäistö will be interviewed by Riika Raitio at 2:40 p.m.

– It’s good to get rid of the understandable focus on Helsinki and it’s great that living writers move around the country and come here to meet people with a broader perspective.

The Jyväskylä publishing company Docendo, which has been taken over by the large WSOY, continues to publish books independently in Jyväskylä.

Docendo is offered a lot of manuscripts from the desk drawer, but the biggest hits are born in another way. At the publishing house, we first think about a current idea that should be implemented.

– Then we look for suitable factors, put together the project and can make a cost program that looks like ours, Simola reveals.

*You can discuss the topic on 27.11. until 23:00.*