Abstract
The text is an afterword to the anthology of Finnish short stories named It Is not Easy to Sleep Here at Summer Nights. It deals with the issue of geographical definition of the north in Finland, the question of the Northern Finland author and the literature of this region.
It outlines important milestones from the history of its establishment on the Finnish cultural scene, the related issue of identity and the question of genre definition. It characterizes writers included in the anthology as representatives of this literature.