Reetta Karjalainen

Reetta Karjalainen was born in 1973 in Kranj, Slovenia, to a Finnish journalist couple and grew up bilingual. She studied Finnish studies, Finno-Ugric studies and German philology in Vienna. As a translator, she translated works by Finnish Nobel laureate Frans Eemil Sillanpää into German, including "Frommes Elend" (2014, together with Anu Katariina Lindemann) and "Hiltu und Ragnar".