Leena Krohn was born 1947 in Helsinki. She studied philosophy, psychology and literature at Helsinki University. She lives as a free writer in Southern Finland, Pernaja.

    Leena Krohn has written nearly thirty books, novels, short stories, fantasy stories for children, poems, essays and radio plays.

    Krohn's collection of stories and essays, Matemaattisia olentoja tai jaettuja unia (Matematiska varelser, transl. into Swedish by Susanne Hellsten, Sahlgrens 1995), was awarded by the Finlandia Prize (1992).

    Leena Krohn's readers have access to a number of her writings and works via the World Wide Web where her home page is located at http://www.kaapeli.fi/krohn/

      Select Bibliography:
    • Ihmisen vaatteissa (1976);
      I Människokläder. Transl. into Swedish by Thomas Warburton (1989).
      Translated into Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, Norwegian, Bulgarian and Estonian. The film Pelican Man is based on this book.
    • Donna Quijote ja muita kaupunkilaisia (1983);
      English transl. by Hildi Hawkins (Carcanet 1996):
      French transl. by Pierre-Alain Gendre (Ed. ésprit ouvert, 1998);
      Hungarian transl. by Eva Pap and Ottilia Kovacs (Polar 1998);
      Selected transl. into Swedish by Henrika Ringbom, (Artes 1998:4, 94-101);
    • Tainaron. Postia toisesta kaupungista (1985);
      Tainaron. Brev från en annan stad. Transl. into Swedish by Thomas Warburton (1987);
      Tainaron. Mail from another city. Transl. by Hildi Hawkins;
      Japanese edition. Transl. by Hiroko Suenobu (2002);
      Also published in Hungarian and Latvian.
    • Kynä ja kone (1997);
      Pennan och maskinen. Swedish transl. by Seija Torpefält (Annamma 1998).
    • Pereat mundus. Romaani, eräänlainen (a novel, kind of, WSOY 1998); Pereat mundus (Swedish transl. by Seija Torpefält, Annamma 2001).
    • Datura tai harha jonka jokainen näkee (a, novel, WSOY 2001)
    • 3 sokeaa miestä ja 1 näkevä (essays, WSOY 2003)
    • Unelmakuolema (a novel, Teos 2004)
    • Mehiläispaviljonki (a novel, Teos 2006)

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