The Year of the Hare (novel)

The Year of the Hare
Author Arto Paasilinna
Original title Jäniksen vuosi
Translator Herbert Lomas
Country Finland
Language Finnish
Publisher Weilin+Göös
Publication date
 1975
Published in English
 March 1995
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 182
ISBN 951-35-1252-5
OCLC 2195299

The Year of the Hare (Finnish: Jäniksen vuosi) is a 1975 novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. It tells the story of Kaarlo Vatanen, a frustrated journalist, who, after nearly killing a hare with his car, decides to live with the hare in the wilderness.

The novel has been translated into over a dozen languages including English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Slovenian, Estonian and Czech. It is Paasilinna's most widely read work[1] and was included in 1994 in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works which funded the 1995 English translation by Herbert Lomas. It was adapted twice into feature films: a Finnish 1977 film called The Year of the Hare, and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called Le Lièvre de Vatanen.

Notes

  1. ↑ Arto Paasilinna, ex Virtual Finland archived at Wayback Machine

References

  • Arto Paasilinna, Herbert Lomas (tr.). The Year of the Hare. ISBN 0-7206-1017-6 (1995, 1st ed.). ISBN 978-0-7206-1277-6 (2006, 6th ed.)
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