The Finnish Illustration Association has chosen Marika Maijala as the Illustrator of the Year 2024. This is the sixth time the Finnish Illustration Association has presented the greatest recognition prize in the illustration industry.  According to the jury, Marika Maijala’s distinctive, unique visual language and relaxed line continues to delight again and again. Her work […]

We are excited to share that author and illustrator Anne Vasko’s picture book The Hat (Hattu, Etana Editions 2023) has been longlisted for the Association of Illustrators’ World Illustration Awards 2024 in the Children’s Publishing category.  The Hat is an absurd story about a strange hat and its many twists and turns. Appearing out of nowhere the […]

The nominations for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were recently announced. We are happy to share that Tiitu Takalo is among the nominees in the Best Graphic Memoir category with the graphic novel Memento Mori.  Memento Mori, translated into English by Maria Schroderus and published by Oni Press is an autobiographical graphic novel about […]

Last night, the Moomin brand, owned by Moomin Characters, won the Best Brand — Publishing, Stationery, Social Expression category in the esteemed Licensing International Excellence Awards in Las Vegas. The Excellence Awards, founded by Licensing International, honor innovation and creativity in the licensing community. They spotlight the power of brands to connect with consumers and […]

Rights & Brands has received another nomination in the prestigious Licensing International Excellence Awards as Delipap’s Moomin Baby diapers is one of the finalists for Best Sustainability Initiative. According to Licensing International, the Best Sustainability Initiative award recognizes a licensed product or product range that is making measurable improvements in sustainability. Delipap’s Moomin Baby Diapers […]

Rights & Brands collaboration with Eton Shirts and The Beatles has been chosen as a finalist in the 2024 Licensing Excellence Awards in the category Best Product – Apparel, Footwear, or Accessories for Entertainment Brands.  Every year, Licensing International shines a spotlight on the innovation and accomplishments within the licensing industry worldwide at the Licensing […]

Rights & Brands has secured its place as one of the top 20 global licensing agents, as revealed in License Global’s annual report, Top Brand Licensing Agents 2024. This recognition highlights R&B’s commitment to driving brand development and market expansion worldwide. License Global’s esteemed report ranks licensing agents based on revenue, reflecting the industry’s dynamic […]

The Moomin brand has been chosen as a finalist in the Best Brand – Publishing, Stationery, Social Expression category in the esteemed 2024 Licensing Excellence Awards. Since 1986, the Licensing International Excellence Awards have been celebrating the best brands, licensed products, and initiatives from the past year. The Excellence Awards are the only international recognition […]

The list of The Most Beautiful Books of 2023 has been revealed and we are happy to share that five books from R&B’s list have been selected among the year’s most beautiful books. The Finnish Book Art Committee chooses the Most Beautiful Books of the Year collection annually. One title is awarded as the Year’s Most […]

Rights & Brands’ collaboration with Moomin and Delipap has been shortlisted for a Bologna Licensing award in the category Best Licensed Sustainable Project. Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the world’s leading fair for children’s publishing and is open from April 8 to April 11. The fair also includes The Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids, which hands […]

The release of the annual top lists of 2023 book sales (including streaming) brings wonderful news for author Sofie Sarenbrant.   The eleventh book in the acclaimed crime series about detective Emma Sköld, The Parasite (Parasiten), by Sarenbrant is the best-selling crime book of the year. The book was also the third most-sold fiction book. In […]

Two R&B-represented creators are among the ten nominees for Finland’s most appreciated comic art prize Comics Finlandia (Sarjakuva-Finlandia). Edith Hammar is nominated with their latest graphic novel Portal and Tiitu Takalo and historian researcher Tiina Männistö-Funk with the graphic novel Cycling.  Portal is Edith Hammar’s second graphic novel, published by Förlaget. A beautifully melancholic tale where fantasy […]

We are delighted to share that The Most Beautiful Books of the Year finalists include five R&B represented books. More than 70 books in five categories are competing for the honorary title.  Curious Learners Study Cancer (Uteliaat oppijat tutkivat syöpää) by Henna Auno & Piia Keto (graphic design by Jenni Erkintalo), published by Etana Editions […]

The nominees for the 2023 Adlibris Award in Finland have been announced and among them are Katri Kirkkopelto, Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen and Sofie Sarenbrant. Katri Kirkkopelto’s Blue and a Topsy Turvy Day (Molli ja väärä jalka) and Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen’s Tatu and Patu’s Fantasy Adventure (Tatun ja Patun fantasiaseikkailu) are both […]

Great news for our author Niko Hallikainen who won the 2023 Toisinkoinen Literary Prize for his second novel Big Wet Secret (Suuri märkä salaisuus).  Niko Hallikainen’s widely praised, poetic and raw coming-of-age story Big Wet Secret (Suuri märkä salaisuus) is a masterful depiction of class differences, adolescent intensities and insecurities, awakening homosexuality and devastating alcoholism. […]

Edith Hammar is among the first historical Prisma Literature Prize winners. Hammer won the Prisma Literature Prize in the Series of the Year category for the graphic novel Portal. Prisma is a newly established literary prize which recognises and awards contemporary LGBTI+ literature. It is awarded in seven categories to works that depict queer experiences and/or […]

Finnish authors Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen have received the Order of the Lion of Finland, Pro Finlandia award. The author duo best known as the creators of the hilarious Tatu and Patu book series are among the 14 recipients of the Pro Finlandia that honours outstanding cultural figures. The Pro Finlandia for writers and artists […]

We are overjoyed to announce that the English edition of Siri Kolu’s ‘Me and the Robbersons’ has been nominated as the UK Honour Books for the 2024 list.  Me and the Robbersons is the first title in the successful children’s novel series about the Robbersons. Kolu’s amazingly entertaining and anarchic stories follow the Robbersons, a […]

The nominees for the 2023 Adlibris Award have been announced and we want to congratulate both Sofie Sarenbrant and Carina Bergfeldt. Sofie Sarenbrant’s and Carina Bergfeldt’s The Birthday (Födelsedagen) has been shortlisted for Crime Novel of the Year. Also, Sarenbrant’s The Parasite (Parasiten) is nominated in the same category.  Fun fact, author Sofie Sarenbrant has […]

Author Dess Terentyeva’s second verse novel Freestyle is shortlisted for the 2024 Topelius Prize.  We are happy to share another award nomination for the praised verse novel Freestyle as it is among the nominees for the Topelius Prize.  The jury describes the work as follows: “Terentjeva’s vivid verse novel deals with the significance of friendship and […]