Residency artists and researchers Literature Johanna Sinisalo author Johanna Sinisalo is a novelist and scriptwriter from Tampere. Her debut novel Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (Can’t before Sunset) won the Finlandia award, Finland’s most prestigious literature prize, in 2000. The book has since been translated into several languages. Sinisalo has published three further novels and a collection of narratives. During her residence stay she completed work on the novel Linnunaivot (Bird Brains), which was published in autumn 2008. The perfect serenity of the Saari Residence environment and the spectacular spring migration of birds that coincided with Sinisalo’s stay in spring 2008 seem to have brought splendid results: many critics have praised Linnunaivoja as some of her best work to date. Johanna Sinisalo worked at the Saari Residence in April and May 2008.