Aava Books receives silver in IPPY Awards

The Finnish publishing company Aava Books Co. has won silver in the IPPY - Independent Publisher Awards with its book Attachments. The book, which was written in English took part in the competition within the category photography books/most original concept. Attachments is the creation of the New Yorker gallerist and photographer Anne-Marie Cottenet Dannenberg.

2009 IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year is America’s most significant annual independent publisher literature award. The awards will be announced for the 13th time at the end if May in association with the country’s largest book fair event, BookExpo America.

Aava Books Co. was established in 2002 by the Finnish artist Marjukka Kaminen. The publishing company, which operates in Haukipudas, has published previously for instance the English-language Finland, a Cultural Guide by Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki-Schulman and Lupaus (Promise) by Elina Halttunen.

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