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RIINA KATAJAVUORI (b. 1968 in Helsinki) Riina Katajavuori's first collection of poems Varkaan kirja (The Book of a Thief) appeared in 1992. Since then she has published three collections of poems, Kuka puhuu (Who's Talking), 1994, Painoton tila (Weightless Space), 1998, and Koko tarina (The Whole Story), 2001. She has also written Hevikimmat (Heavy Metal Chicks), a novel that was published in 1999, and Pentin aprillipäivä (Pentti and April Fools' Day), a children's book with the illustrator Salla Savolainen, in 2002. Another novel Gifts was published in 2004 and a book of short stories Letters to Ekaterinburg in 2006. Her second children's book Pentti in the Canary Islands with the illustrator Salla Savolainen was published in 2006. Recently a pocket book version of her novel Gifts was published and it is one of the 10 best-selling pocket books in Finland at the moment. She has translated into Finnish poems from the Scottish Poet Aonghas MacNeacail (Gaelic and English) for Nuori Voima – magazine, Poems from Canadian Author Margaret Atwood (English) for Nuori Voima- and Hipparkia- magazines, from American John Ashbery (English) for Nuori Voima – magazine and Poems from Shamshad Abdullajev from Uzbekistan for the Kuka puhuu –anthology (in Russian and Finnish, ed. Jukka Mallinen, Atena 1997) and Mukkula-magazine 1997. She has also translated poems by the Shetland poets Lise Sinclair, Robert Alan Jamieson and Christine De Luca. She has also translated poems from the following poets: the Latvian poet Amanda Aizpuriete, the Estonian poet Andres Ehin, the Norwegian poet Thor Sorheim, the Icelandic poet Adalsteinn Asberg Sigurdsson. |
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Translator Anselm
Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland, and was educated there and in
the U.S. (senior year in high school on an exchange scholarship). In his
early twenties, he left Finland to live and work as a writer and translator,
first in Germany and Austria, then in London, where he was employed by
the BBC's European Services in their Finnish Program from 1958 to 1967.
Translations into Finnish from that time include Allen Ginsberg's Howl
and John Lennon's In His Own Write.
For the last thirty years, Hollo has lived in the United States, teaching creative writing and literary translation at numerous colleges and universities, including SUNY Buffalo, The University of Iowa, and The University of Colorado. He has read his work, lectured, and conducted workshops at many universities and colleges, art museums and galleries, literary conferences, coffeehouses, and living rooms. He is now Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing and Poetics Department at The Naropa Institute, a Buddhist-inspired nonsectarian liberal arts college in Boulder, Colorado, where he and his wife, the painter Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, make their home. Hollo has published more than thirty-five books and chapbooks of his poetry, most recently Corvus (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1995) and AHOE (Erie CO: Smokeproof Press, 1997). He has also translated many contemporary Finnish poets, among them Paavo Haavikko (Selected Poems 1949 - 1988, Manchester UK: Carcanet Press, 1991) and Pentti Saarikoski (Trilogy: the last three books, Los Angeles CA: Sun & Moon, 1998), as well as fiction, plays, and poetry (by a.o. Brecht, Paul Klee, Genet, Blok, Louis Malle) from the German, French, Swedish, and Finnish. Hollo's honors and awards include the New York State Creative Artists' Public Service Award (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Poet's Fellowship (1979), the P.E.N./American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for Poetry in Translation (1981), the American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for Poetry in Translation (1989), Fund for Poetry Awards for Contributions to Contemporary Poetry (1989, 1991), The Finnish Government Prize for Translation of Finnish Literature (1996), and a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry 1995-1996 (1996). |