Gabriele Schrey-Vasara

Gabriele Schrey-Vasara, born in 1953, studied history, Romance languages and literature, and Finno-Ugric studies in Göttingen and Helsinki. She worked as a translator from Finnish into German and translated, among others, novels by Kati Hiekkapelto, Emmi Itäranta and Matti Rönkä. In 2008, she received the Finnish State Translator’s Prize.