Bonnier News - Tammi

Tammi Educational Hits New Niche with Home & School Series

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-16
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Educational books for children before they start school to launch in August.

Not being No. 1 has its advantages. So says Sanna Lukander, content director at Tammi Educational in Finland: "You can be more flexible and take more risks."

A division of book publisher Tammi, Tammi Educational is the No. 3 educational materials publisher in Finland, producing textbooks, guides and other materials for all school ages including adults.

Tammi's Manga Imprints Capture Finland's 13-year-olds

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-07
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Sangatsu Manga and Punainen jättiläinen, Tammi's two manga imprints, try a novel way to reach their core audience.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines manga as "a Japanese comic book or graphic novel." A pretty colorless description for a complex genre. Read back to front, top to bottom and right to left, with conventions for storytelling, style of illustration and even the ratio of text to picture, manga has become a global phenomenon. Although real manga is always from Japan, it has spawned versions in other cultures and inspired designers with its often elegant illustrations. And it's been a hit everywhere from the U.S.

Nobel Prize to W&W and Tammi

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-10-08
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Herta Müller, whose books in Swedish are published by Wahlström & Widstrand and in Finnish by Tammi, is this year's Nobel laureate in literature

It was the German-Romanian author Herta Müller who received this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. She is described as "a prolific novelist and essayist whose works depicting the human devastation of the Romanian dictatorship and the rootlessness of political asylum."

Her Swedish publisher Wahlström & Widstrand are obviously very pleased today.

"We had a hope," says Martin Stromberg at Wahlstrom & Widstrand. "But you can never be sure."

In Pocket

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-04-24
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Finnish publisher Tammi's classic series Gula Biblioteket celebrates their 55th anniversary with pocket-sized versions

Gula Biblioteket is releasing pocket-sized versions of their classics first time.  They will start with ten books from different decades: Niko Kazantzaki's Zorba the Greek, Graham Greene's  The Quiet American, Alberto Moravia's Contempt, Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Mr.