Jenni Räinä

Author

Jenni Räinä (b. 1980) is a non-fiction writer and journalist. Räinä’s family roots are in the small hamlet of Hyry (pop. 200) just north of Oulu, where she currently lives.

In the 2023 Botnia Prize nominee Marsh Memories (Suo muistaa) she embeds the themes of climate crisis and protection of the environment into the stories of fictional characters, Juho and Hellä. Her previous book Women Wandering the Wild (Kulkijat, 2021) is a break away from the traditional wilderness books and presents the stories of nine women who talk about the wild and their relationship with nature in an era of eco-crisis. The book also features Teija Soini’s photographs.

Jenni Räinä is also one of the four authors of The Forest After Us (Metsä meidän jälkemme), which won the Finlandia Non-Fiction Prize in 2019. All of Jenni Räinä’s work deals with Finnish nature, especially forests and swamps, and reflects the author’s deep knowledge of these topics.
In 2018, she was a nominee for the Finlandia Non-Fiction Award and for Bonnier’s Finnish Grand Prize for Journalism in the Book of the Year category. That same year, she was awarded the Botnia Literature Prize.