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.^[1][2]

Parnasso was established in 1951.^[3][4] It was modeled on Bonniers Litterära Magasin, a Swedish literary magazine.^[5] The headquarters of Parnasso is in Helsinki. The magazine is part of Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet Oy, and its publisher is Otavamedia Oy.^[6]

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.^[3][7] In 1959 Parnasso published a special edition on Japanese literature which included tankas, Japanese poetry genre, translated by Tuomas Anhava, its editor-in-chief.^[2] This edition also featured a Finnish translation of the short story by Fumiko Hayashi.^[2] In the 1960s one of the regular contributors was Pentti Saarikoski.^[8] The magazine published Finnish translations of the poems by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.^[9] These poems were translated into Finnish by Jarno Pennanen, a Finnish poet.^[9] The Finnish translations of the poems by the Russian Vladimir Mayakovsky were also published in the magazine in its eighth issue dated 1963.^[8]

As of 2021 each issue of Parnasso featured nearly ten book reviews.^[7] 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.^[7]

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.^[10]

The audited circulation of Parnasso was 4,145 copies in 2003.^[3] The magazine sold 7,027 copies in 2011.^[12] Its circulation was 6,119 copies in 2013.^[13]

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