Kertoja
Kertoja is a Finnish noun meaning narrator or storyteller. In literary and narrative studies, kertoja refers to the narrative voice that presents the story to the reader or audience. The kertoja can be an actual character within the story (a character narrator) or a voice outside the diegetic world (an external or observer narrator). The choice of kertoja and the manner of telling shape how events are perceived, interpreted, and valued.
Types of kertoja are often described by point of view and level of knowledge. A first-person kertoja
Kerronta, the act of narration, includes strategies such as direct speech, free indirect discourse, and narrative
Etymology: kertoja derives from kertoa, “to tell.” The concept is central to narratology in Finnish-language literary