Meri Valkama

Meri Valkama (b.1980) is a Finnish journalist, writer and deputy city councillor based in Helsinki. She spent part of her childhood in East Berlin and later on, as an adult, on a scholarship at the Freie Universität Berlin where she researched  and produced documentaries about journalists who had worked in the former German republic. Valkama debuted with her novel Yours, Margot (WSOY, 2021), which won her the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize 2021 for the best debut of the year. She lives in Helsinki and is working on a second novel.

Author photo by Otto Virtanen.