Sinuhe egyptiläinen

Literal translation: Sinuhe the Egyptian

Author

Mika Waltari

Language

Finnish

Year

1945

Country

Finland

Genre

Novel

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The Egyptian is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949, from Swedish rather than Finnish. Regarded as "one of the greatest books in Finnish literary history", it is one of the most-translated Finnish works of literature, and is, so far, the only Finnish novel to be adapted into a Hollywood film, which happened in 1954.