Nemo

Nemo is a Finnish language general publisher. Since starting in 1997, Nemo has published numerous Top 10 hits, both translated and Finnish.

Some of our recent titles include:

Lauren Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada

Ben Schott: Schott’s Original Miscellany 

Rufus Butler Seder: Gallop! A Scanimation Picture Book

Tim Harford: The Logic of Life

Debbie Stoller: Stitch ’n Bitch. The Knitters Handbook

A. J. Jacobs: The Year of Living Biblically

Christopher Hart: Manga Mania: Romance: Drawing Shojo Girls and Bishie Boys

Robert Sabuda & Matthew Reinhart: Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up

Holtzwarth & Erlbruch: The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit

Our authors also include: Philip Gourevitch, Eduardo Galeano, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, Gaston Bachelard, Gianni Vattimo, Philippe Ariès & George Duby, Dorothee Sölle, Thomas Pynchon, Marcia Muller, Victoria Stilwell, Joëlle Jolivet, Pittau & Gervais and Toon Tellegen.

Nemo’s books by Finnish authors have won many awards, both for their content and design. In 2007 Marko Kilpi’s debut detective novel won the detective novel of the year contest in Finland and a diary of a nurse by Kaarina Davis was shortlisted for the non-fiction Finlandia-prize.


Our publishers regularly visit the London and Frankfurt book fairs and occasionally Bologna and Gothenburg. Our offices are situated in the heart of Helsinki.

We would love to hear your ideas for new books.

Please contact:

Mika Siimes, publisher mika.siimes(a)nemokustannus.fi

Nina Karjalainen, publisher, nina.karjalainen(a)nemokustannus.fi

Tel. +358-9-643 144

Fax +358-9-6843 7400


Laivanvarustajankatu 3 B 62
00140 Helsinki, Finland