{{Short description|Finnish literary magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | frequency = Seven times per year | circulation = | category = Literary magazine | company = Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet Oy | publisher = Otavamedia Oy | founded = {{start date and age|1951}} | firstdate = | finaldate = | country = Finland | based = Helsinki | language = Finnish | website = [https://otavamedia.fi/tutustu-ja-tilaa/parnasso/ ''Parnasso''] | issn = 0031-2320 | oclc = 470184985}} '''''Parnasso''''' is a literary magazine published in Helsinki, Finland. The magazine has been in circulation since 1951. It is among the most respected literary magazines in the country.<ref>{{cite web|author=Tatu Henttonen|title=Poetry Blogging in Finland|date=Fall 2006 |url=https://www15.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/CULT/th-blog.html|work=University of Tampere|archive-date=25 January 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125015515/https://www15.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/CULT/th-blog.html}}</ref><ref name=janna>{{cite book|author=Janna Kantola|editor1=Massimo Bacigalupo|editor2=William Pratt|title=Ezra Pound, Language and Persona|year=2008|publisher=University of Genoa |location=Genova|page=138|chapter-url=http://www.lcm.unige.it/ricerca/pub/15/08.pdf|chapter=Ezra Pound as a Persona for Modern Finnish poetry |editor1-link=Massimo Bacigalupo}}</ref>
==History and profile== ''Parnasso'' was established in 1951.<ref name=con>{{cite journal|author=Juhana Rossi|title=Letter from Finland|journal=Context|issue=17 |url=http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/letter-from-finland-2/|archive-date=7 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207005353/http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/letter-from-finland-2/}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jan Sjåvik |title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCBpiKsi7a0C&pg=PA229|year=2006 |publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6501-3|page=229|location=Lanham, MD; Toronto; Oxford}}</ref> It was modeled on ''Bonniers Litterära Magasin'', a Swedish literary magazine.<ref name=aala>{{cite web|title=Matti Suurpää: Parnasso 1951-2011 (a book) |work=Antti Alanen blog|date=10 July 2011|access-date=14 November 2014|url=http://anttialanenfilmdiary.blogspot.com.tr/2011/07/matti-suurpaa-parnasso-1951-2011-book.html}}</ref> The headquarters of ''Parnasso'' is in Helsinki. The magazine is part of Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet Oy, and its publisher is Otavamedia Oy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Parnasso|work=Aikakaus Media|access-date=14 November 2014|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead|url=http://www.aikakauslehdet.fi/ratecards/?vuosi=2014&id=380&lang=eng&type=#levikki|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129020914/http://www.aikakauslehdet.fi/ratecards/?vuosi=2014&id=380&lang=eng&type=}}</ref>
''Parnasso'' is published seven times per year and covers original writings on poetry, short fiction, essays, literary journalism, and reviews of both belles-lettres and nonfiction work.<ref name=con/><ref name=seppo>{{cite journal|author=Seppo Suominen| title=Public Library Borrowing, the Case of Helsinki Region|journal=First Look|year=2021|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3926079| s2cid=237580471}}</ref> In 1959 ''Parnasso'' published a special edition on Japanese literature which included tankas, Japanese poetry genre, translated by Tuomas Anhava, its editor-in-chief.<ref name=janna/> This edition also featured a Finnish translation of the short story by Fumiko Hayashi.<ref name=janna/> In the 1960s one of the regular contributors was Pentti Saarikoski.<ref name=jkan>{{cite book|author=Janna Kantola|editor1=Tania Ørum|editor2=Jesper Olsson|title=A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975|year=2016 |publisher=Brill Rodopi|location=Leiden; Boston|isbn=9789004310506|pages=338–339|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004310506_033|volume=32 |chapter=Making Choices – Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines|doi=10.1163/9789004310506_033 }}</ref> The magazine published Finnish translations of the poems by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.<ref name=dur>{{cite book|editor1=Astradur Eysteinsson|editor2=Vivian Liska|title=Modernism|year=2007 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Rw6AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA850|isbn=978-90-272-9204-9 |page=850|author=H. K. Riikonen|chapter=Modernism in Finnish Literature|location=Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA}}</ref> These poems were translated into Finnish by Jarno Pennanen, a Finnish poet.<ref name=dur/> The Finnish translations of the poems by the Russian Vladimir Mayakovsky were also published in the magazine in its eighth issue dated 1963.<ref name=jkan/>
As of 2021 each issue of ''Parnasso'' featured nearly ten book reviews.<ref name=seppo/> In a study it was concluded that the books reviewed in the magazine included in the most borrowed book lists of the public libraries in the Helsinki region.<ref name=seppo/>
During the editorship of Kai Laitinen the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-communist American organization, attempted to develop an affiliation with ''Parnasso'', but it did not work.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Marek Fields|title=Reinforcing Finland's Attachment to the West: British and American Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in Finland, 1944-1962|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10138/153952|year=2015|pages=309–310 |location=University of Helsinki|degree=PhD|hdl=10138/153952}}</ref>
===Editors-in-chief=== The past editors-in-chief of ''Parnasso'' are as follows:<ref name=aala/> Kaarlo Marjanen (1951-1954), Lauri Viljanen (1954-1956), Aatos Ojala (1957-1958), Kai Laitinen (1958-1966), Tuomas Anhava (1966-1979), Juhani Salokannel (1980-1986), Jarkko Laine (1987-2002), and Juhana Rossi (2003-2004)<ref name=con/> In 2005 Jarmo Papinniemi became the editor-in-chief of the magazine.<ref name=aala/> As of 2014 Karo Hämäläinen was serving in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=Finland's 'Moomins' conquer the world|url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2014/Aug-08/266558-finlands-moomins-conquer-the-world.ashx#axzz3J3lUvUoQ|access-date=14 November 2014|work=The Daily Star|date=8 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809041135/http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2014/Aug-08/266558-finlands-moomins-conquer-the-world.ashx|archive-date=9 August 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Circulation== The audited circulation of ''Parnasso'' was 4,145 copies in 2003.<ref name=con/> The magazine sold 7,027 copies in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Circulation Statistics 2011|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|work=Media Audit Finland |access-date=13 December 2014|archive-date=25 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725045140/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Circulations2011.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its circulation was 6,119 copies in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Circulation Statistics 2013|url=http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Circulations2013.pdf|work=Media Audit Finland|access-date=4 April 2015|date=23 June 2014|archive-date=29 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329225311/http://mediaauditfinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Circulations2013.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== *List of magazines in Finland
==References== {{Reflist}} {{wiktionary|Parnasso}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://otavamedia.fi/tutustu-ja-tilaa/parnasso/}} *{{Commons-inline}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Parnasso}} Category:1951 establishments in Finland Category:Finnish-language magazines Category:Literary magazines published in Finland Category:Magazines established in 1951 Category:Magazines published in Helsinki Category:Poetry literary magazines Category:Book review magazines