Finnish Literature Society

The Finnish Literature Society (SKS) is an international research institute, national memory organisation and national cultural organisation. SKS's primary functions are the research and promotion of Finnish oral tradition, the Finnish language and literature.

The Finnish Literature Society 

• is a learned society and non-governmental organisation founded in 1831
• stores, preserves and studies Finnish culture
• is Finland's largest scholarly and non-fiction publisher in the field of the humanities
• provides grants for the export of Finnish literature
• conveys information about oral and written Finnish cultures and their study.