The Year of the Hare (novel)

This article is about the novel. For the two films, see The Year of the Hare (1977 film) and The Year of the Hare (2006 film).
The Year of the Hare
Cover of the first Finnish edition
AuthorArto Paasilinna
Original titleJäniksen vuosi
TranslatorHerbert Lomas
LanguageFinnish
PublisherWeilin+Göös
Publication date
1975
Publication placeFinland
Published in English
March 1995
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages182
ISBN951-35-1252-5
OCLC2195299

The Year of the Hare (Finnish: Jäniksen vuosi) is a 1975 picaresque novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna.

The novel has been translated into 29 languages including English, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Rumanian, Russian, Swedish, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian. It is Paasilinna's most widely read work,[1] and was included in 1994 in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works which funded the 1995 English translation by Herbert Lomas. It was adapted twice into feature films: a 1977 Finnish film called The Year of the Hare, and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called Le Lièvre de Vatanen.

  1. ^ Arto Paasilinna, ex Virtual Finland archived at Wayback Machine