Lola Rogers on Translations from Finland and 'The Colonel's wife' (Finnish)

Lola Rogers translates novels, short stories, poems, comics, and children literature from Finnish into English. Her most recent translation is the internationally acclaimed novel Summer Fishing in Lapland (U.S. Title Fishing for the Little Pike), by Juhani Karila. 

Lola’s translations have been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Petrona Award for Nordic crime fiction. Her translation of Johanna Sinisalo’s The Core of the Sun won the 2017 Prometheus Award. She was named an NEA Translation Fellow for her translation of The Death of Orvar Klein, a Finnish modern classic by Daniel Katz. Lola has served as a translation mentor through Finnish Literature Exchange, and is a founding member of the Finnish-English Literary Translation Cooperative.

In this conversation, She spoke about how she started translating Finnish literature, Finnish translator community and about the author Rosa Liksom and the novel 'The colonel's wife'.

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