threaten her to reveal her dark secret if she does not agree to marry Mikko, but Anna Liisa refuses. In the end, she decides to confess what she has done. She is taken to prison, but is much relieved after owning up and seems to have found peace. In popular culture A two-part television mini-series about Minna Canth called Minna, written by and directed by , was released in 1977. In the mini-series, Minna Canth is played by . Tribute Canth is remembered in Finland for its numerous landmarks, publications, medals, commemorative coins, stamps, paintings, plays, exhibitions and events. According to her, a lot of different construction sites and places have been named. Canth is also named after several cultural clubs and other communities. The Finnish Fair Foundation (Suomen Messusäätiö) has funded the Minna Canth Prize, which is awarded annually to the “shaker of our society” at the Helsinki Book Fair. The prize is 5,000 euros. The statues of Minna Canth have been erected in Kuopio, Tampere and Jyväskylä, from which the statue in Kuopio was unveiled on 12 May 1937. The city of Kuopio has also organized Canth's anniversaries on several occasions, such as an event called Minnan päivät ("Days of Minna"), either during the tenth anniversary of her birth or death; for example, the 21st century has already been celebrated twice, in 2004 and 2007. On 19 March 2017, Google celebrated her 173rd birthday with a Google Doodle. Translations Canth, Minna: The Burglary and The House of Roinila. Translated into English by Richard Impola. Aspasia Books, Beaverton 2010. Further reading Sirkka Sinkkonen, editor (1986) Toward equality: proceedings of the American and Finnish Workshop on Minna Canth, Kuopio, 19 to 20 June 1985. University of Kuopio. . References External links Website about the life of Minna Canth in 1844–1897 in Finnish 1844 births 1897 deaths People from Tampere People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Writers from Pirkanmaa Finnish dramatists and playwrights Finnish feminists Finnish merchants 19th-century Finnish writers Finnish women dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Finnish journalists 19th-century Finnish women writers 19th-century Finnish dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Finnish businesspeople Finnish women journalists Finnish temperance activists 19th-century women journalists