Enter your book in the Most Beautiful Books 2025 competition

Welcome to the Most Beautiful Books 2025 competition!

The Finnish Book Art Committee will select the 28 most beautiful books published in 2025. The books will be awarded with the Book Arts Beautiful Book Award and one of them will be awarded with the Most Beautiful Book of the Year Award.

Publishers, printing houses, and designers can submit books of their choice published during 2025 for evaluation to the Finnish Book Art Committee by 13 January 2026 at the latest. In addition to the required information, a picture of the book’s front cover is required.

To be eligible for the competition, at least one person involved in the production of the book must be a Finnish citizen or a permanent resident of Finland:

Publisher
Graphic designer
Illustrator or photographer
Printer or binder

The competition is entered by category:

Fiction
Non-fiction and textbooks
Art and photography books
Children’s and young adults’ books
Comic books
Experimental, limited editions (no ISBN)
Covers

Register the book

    Valitse kilpailukategoria*

    Välj tävlingskategori*

    Select a competition category*

    Painosmäärä

    Upplaga

    Edition

    Kuva kirjan kannesta*
    Liitä tähän kuva kirjan etukannesta jpg- tai pdf-tiedostona (max 1 Mt ).

    En bild på bokpärmen*
    Tillfoga här bilden på bokpärmen antingen som jpg- eller pdf-fil (max 1 MB).

    Picture of the book cover*
    Please attach a picture of the front cover of the book as a jpg or pdf file (max 1 MB ).

    Participation fee

    The entry fee is €85 for the first work, and €60 for subsequent works, with the same entrant. If the number of copies is less than 100, the entry fee is €50. Student works can be entered free of charge in the category of student works, small prints and experimental publications (no ISBN number); for other entries in this category, the entry fee is based on the number of copies (less than 100 copies €50). If you are participating as a student, you must be able to present a valid Finnish student card on request.

    Finnish Literary Arts Committee
    IBAN: FI08 1228 3000 0008 0
    BIC: NDEAFIH

    Note Please write the name of the book(s) you wish to submit in the message field. If you need an invoice/receipt for the participation fee, please contact:

    Book delivery

    Please send your book by 13 January 2026 at the latest to the following address

    IF YOU ARE SENDING BY POST
    SUOMEN KIRJATAITEEN KOMITEA
    Kauneimmat kirjat -kilpailu
    c/o Kansalliskirjast0
    PL 15
    00014 Helsinki University

    IF YOU BRING IT YOURSELF 

    SUOMEN KIRJATAITEEN KOMITE
    The Finnish Literature Committee
    c/o Kansalliskirjast0
    Unioninkatu 36
    Helsinki

    NOTE Books sent to the competition will not be returned

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