Helena Sinervo (born 17 February 1961) is a Finnish poet, novelist and translator. She has published three novels, 11 poetry collections and three children's books and her works has been translated into more than 25 languages. Sinervo was awarded the

Finlandia Prize The Finlandia Prize ( fi, Finlandia-palkinto; sv, Finlandiaprisen) is a set of Finnish literary prizes awarded by the Finnish Book Foundation to "celebrate reading and highlight new Finnish first-rate literature." Considered the most prestigious ...

for Fiction in 2004.

Life

Sinervo was born in the Finnish city of Tampere in 1961 and she studied the piano and music. She was at the Tampere Conservatoire where she qualified to teach piano. She obtained her doctorate at

Helsinki University The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public university, public Research university, research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turk ...

. She became a published poet in 1994.Memory bears the Child
Electricverses.net, retrieved 24 April 2014 Sinervo has translated poems by the American poet

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American people, American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the N ...

, the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, Maurice Blanchot and the symbolist poet

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of ...

. Sinervo spent a further year studying in Paris in the 1990s. She has written a novel based on the life of the Finnish poet Eeva-Liisa Manner who died in 1995. She has written song lyrics for the first album by Liisa Lux in 2002. Sinervo won the

for Fiction in 2004.

Works

Poetry collections

*''Lukemattomiin'' (1994) *''Sininen Anglia'' (1996) *''Pimeän parit'' (1997) *''Ihmisen kaltainen'' (2000) *''Oodeja korvalle'' (2003) *''Tilikirja'' (2005) *''Täyttä ainetta'' (2007) *''Väärän lajin laulut'' (2010) *''Valitut runot'' (Selected Poems)'' (2011) *''Avaruusruusuja'' (2014) *''Merveli'' (2018)

Novels

*''Runoilijan talossa'' (2004) *''Tykistönkadun päiväperho'' (2009) *''Armonranta'' (2016)

Children's books

*''Akuvatus ja muita härveleitä & otuksia'' (2007) *''Prinssi Ahava ja riipuksen arvoitus'' (2012) *''Prinssi Ahava ja valtaistuimen salaisuus'' (2013)

Translated works

*''Prins Sludvig og tronstolens hemmelighed'' (Turbino, Denmark 2016) *''Prins Sludvig og medaljonens gåde'' (Turbino, Denmark 2014) *''VERSschmuggel/SäkeenVERSoja: Finnisch-und deutschsprachige Gedichte'' (Wunderhorn/Poesia, Germany 2014) *''Gedichte aus Finnland: Poesiealbum - Sonderheft'' (Märkischer Verlag, Germany 2014) *' (Ellips, Finland 2014) *''Proyectos para un cielo nuevo. Poesía Nórdica Contemporánea'' (Práctica Mortal, México 2011) *''Trois poètes finlandais'' (Le Murmure Editions, France 2011) *''The Other Side of Landscape: An Anthology of Contemporary Nordic Poetry'' (Slope Editions, New York 2006) *''De Habla la luz con voz de corneja. Antología de poesía finlandesa actual.'' (Conaculta, México 2003) *''Les chaises'' (Club Zéro, France 2001)

References

1961 births Living people People from Tampere 20th-century Finnish poets Finnish translators International Writing Program alumni Finnish women poets 20th-century Finnish women writers Finnish LGBT novelists Finnish LGBT poets 21st-century Finnish poets 21st-century translators Finnish children's writers Finnish women children's writers {{Finland-translator-stub