Diego Marani is a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels and the inventor of Europanto, a jokey lingua franca. No surprise then to find that his most celebrated novel, published in ...

He's also written six novels, all in Italian, including a book called New Finnish Grammar which won several prizes after its publication in 2000. Now thanks to the dedication of a small UK ...

The premise of New Finnish Grammar is inspired: a wounded soldier is found by a German crew on the quay at Trieste in September, 1943. He has no identification on him, no memory whatsoever and ...

However, some of the trolling attempts have led to notable failures, especially when faced with a particularly worthy adversary: Finnish grammar. One sentence, appearing to come from a Finnish user, ...

He is the Officer in Charge of Cultural Diplomacy at the European Union in Brussels. New Finnish Grammar is the first part of a trilogy based on the theme of language and identity. It may look ...

Let's start with a few facts about Finnish grammar (hang on in there, the relevance is coming). Finnish has 15 different cases, meaning that there is a different word for "building" according to ...

Such a book is New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani. I did not know anything about the author, but the blurb said that it took 10 years to see Diego Marani’s first novel published in English – in an ...