Reetta Karjalainen

Reetta Karjalainen was born in 1973 in Kranj, Slovenia, to a Finnish journalist couple and grew up bilingual in Finnish and German. She studied Finnish studies, Finno-Ugric studies and German philology in Vienna. As a literary translator, she translated works by Frans Eemil Sillanpää, including “Fromme Elend,” together with Anu Katariina Lindemann, and “Hiltu und Ragnar.”