{"id":8297,"date":"2020-06-07T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=8297"},"modified":"2020-06-07T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:35:57","slug":"finnish-sft-leena-krohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=8297","title":{"rendered":"Finnish SFT: Leena Krohn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leena Krohn<\/strong> is an award-winning Finnish author (including the Finlandia Prize for literature in 1992) of science fiction and fantasy. Her numerous books and stories\u2014written both for children and adults\u2014explore questions of reality and illusion, artificial intelligence, and the power of the natural world.<\/p>\n

Profile in The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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NOVELS\/COLLECTIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Datura, or A Delusion We All See<\/span><\/em><\/a> (2001) (translated by David Hackston, The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy<\/em>, 2006 \/ translated by Anna Volmari and Juha Tupasela, Cheeky Frawg Books, 2013 \/ Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction<\/em>, 2015).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specializing in bringing oddities to light, a job that sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever less familiar. From a sunrise of automated cars working in silent precision to a possible vampire, she discovers that reality may not be as logical as you think\u2014and that people are both odder and more ordinary as they might seem. Especially if you\u2019re eating datura seeds. Especially when the legendary Voynich Manuscript is involved. Where will it all end? Pushed by the mysterious owner of the magazine, our narrator may wind up somewhere very strange indeed.”- Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

excerpt:\u00a0 <\/strong>“The Trepanist,”<\/a><\/span> translated by Anna Volmari and J. Robert Tupasela (Weird Fiction Review<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong>\u00a0 Locus<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Do\u00f1a Quixote and Gold of Ophir<\/em> <\/span><\/a>(1983) by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi Hawkins (Carcanet Press, 1996).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do\u00f1a Quixote<\/em> published alone in Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction<\/em>, ed. Jeff VanderMeer (Cheeky Frawg Books, 2015).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“These are tales from cities in which life is lived under threat of great disaster. Dona Quixote’s reality, that of a modern city, is built up out of a series of portraits centering on the mysterious main character, whose presence is like a flame, drawing the dispossessed of the city to her. Gold of<\/em> Ophir<\/em>, with its rich fusion of the language and imagery of science, alchemy and the Old Testament, makes a more mythic approach to the city.”- publisher’s copy<\/em><\/p>\n

excerpt:\u00a0 <\/strong>“Eyelids That Spatter Blood”<\/span><\/a> (excerpt from Gold of<\/em> Ophir<\/em>), translated by Hildi Hawkins (Weird Fiction Review<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction<\/em><\/span><\/a>, edited by Jeff VanderMeer, translations by Hildi Hawkins, Anna Volmari, J. Robert Tupasela, Viivi Hyvonen, Anselm Hollo, Leena Likitalo, and Eva Buchwald (Cheeky Frawg Books, 2015).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“From cities of giant insects to a mysterious woman claiming to be the female Don Quixote, Leena Krohn\u2019s fiction has fascinated and intrigued readers for over forty years. Within these covers you will discover a pelican that can talk and a city of gold. You will find yourself exploring a future of intelligence both artificial and biotech, along with a mysterious plant that induces strange visions. Krohn writes eloquently, passionately, about the nature of reality, the nature of Nature, and what it means to be human.”- publisher’s copy<\/em><\/p>\n

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Do\u00f1a Quixote and Other Citizens<\/em> (1983) translated by Hildi Hawkins
\nTainaron: Mail From Another City<\/em> (1985) \u2013 translated by Hildi Hawkins
\nGold of Ophir<\/em> (1987) translated by Hildi Hawkins
\nPereat Mundis: A Novel of Sorts<\/em> (1998) translated by Hildi Hawkins
\nDatura, or A Figment Seen By Everyone<\/em> (2001) translated by Anna Volmari & J. Robert Tupasela
\nThe Pelican\u2019s New Clothes<\/em> (1976) translated by Bethany Fox
\nSelection from Umbra<\/em> (1990): \u201cThe Paradox Archive,\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins
\nThree selections from Mathematical Creatures, or Shared Dreams<\/em> (1992): \u201cGorgonoids,\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins; \u201cThe Lord of My Death\u201d and \u201cLucilia Illustris\u201d translated by Viivi Hyvonen
\nA selection from Dreamdeath<\/em> (2004): \u201cTo Sleep, to Die,\u201d \u201cFear of the Dark\u201d and \u201cFit and Unfit for Death\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins
\nA selection from The Bee Pavilion<\/em> (2006): \u201cReally Existing,\u201d \u201cSo Sorry,\u201d and \u201cThe Three Buddhas\u201d translated by Anselm Hollo
\nFour selections from False Window<\/em> (2009): \u201cThe Divider,\u201d \u201cPicture Book,\u201d \u201cFilemon or the Wooden Man,\u201d and \u201cThe Queen of the Night and Other Strangers\u201d translated by Leena Likitalo
\nA selection from Hotel Sapiens<\/em> (2012):\u201cMe and My Shadow\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins
\n“Final Appearance” (2014), translated by Eva Buchwald<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Review:<\/strong>\u00a0 LA Times<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Pereat Mundus: A Novel of Sorts<\/em><\/span><\/a> (1998) (translated by David Hackston, The Dedalus Book of Finnish<\/em> Fantasy<\/em>, 2006 \/ translated by ?, Omnidawn Publishing, 2010 \/ translated by Hildi Hawkins, Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction<\/em>, 2015).<\/strong><\/p>\n

excerpts:<\/strong>
\n\u201cAbout the Henbane City,\u201d translated by Helena Darnell (ParaSpheres<\/em>, 2006).
\n\u201cThe Ice Cream Vendor,\u201d translated by Anselm Hollo (ParaSpheres<\/em>, 2006).
\n\u201cThe Son of Chimera,\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins (ParaSpheres<\/em>, 2006).
\n\u201cA Heart Clothed in Black,\u201d translated by Hildi Hawkins (It Came From the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction<\/em>, 2013).<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tainaron: Mail from Another City<\/span><\/em><\/a> (1985) by Leena Krohn, translated by Hildi Hawkins (Prime Books, 2004 \/ The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories<\/em>, 2011 \/ Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction<\/em>, 2015).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. Nominated for the prestigious Finlandia prize, this is a book of changes that speaks of metamorphoses that test all of nature from a flea to a star, from stone and grass to a human.”- publisher’s copy<\/em><\/p>\n

excerpts:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Bystander\u201d<\/span><\/a> (Weird Fiction Review<\/em>, 2015).
\n\u201cLetters from Tainaron\u201d (The New Weird<\/em>, 2008).
\n\u201cTheir Mother’s Tears: The Fourth Letter\u201d (Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology<\/em>, 2015).<\/p>\n

Reviews:<\/strong>
\nWeird Fiction Review<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\nSF Site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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OTHER AVAILABLE SHORT STORIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGorgonoids\u201d<\/span><\/a> (excerpt from Mathematical Creatures or Shared Dreams<\/em>), translated by Hildi Hawkins (Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction<\/em>, 2015 \/ Lightspeed<\/em>, 2016 \/ The Big Book of Science Fiction<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Quiet of the Gardens,\u201d translated by Eva Buchwald (Other Aliens<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Light in the Guest Room,\u201d translated by Eva Buchwald (Other Aliens<\/em>, 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Night of the Normal Distribution Curve,\u201d translated by Anna Volmari and J. Robert Tupasela (ODD?<\/em>, 2011).<\/p>\n

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  Leena Krohn is an award-winning Finnish author (including the Finlandia Prize for literature in 1992) of science fiction and fantasy. Her numerous books and stories\u2014written both for children and adults\u2014explore questions of reality and illusion, artificial intelligence, and the power of the natural world. Profile in The New Yorker     NOVELS\/COLLECTIONS Datura, or<\/p>\n

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