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'.The Book can be purchased using the link given in the show notes.https://amzn.to/3vaj7Q6* For your Valuable feedback on this Episode - Please click the below linkhttps://bit.ly/epfedbckHarshaneeyam on Spotify App –http://bit.ly/harshaneeyam Harshaneeyam on Apple App –http://apple.co/3qmhis5 *Contact us - [email protected] ***Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Interviewees in interviews conducted by Harshaneeyam Podcast are those of the Interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Harshaneeyam Podcast. Any content provided by Interviewees is of their opinion and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp