Janina Maria Orlov, (born 10 February 1955) is a Finnish-Swedish translator of literature. She took her PhD in the Russian language in 2005 at
Åbo Akademi
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with a text about
Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan ( rus, «Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богаты ...
. Orlov translates books from Russian and Finnish to Swedish and specializes in children's books and youth literature, but also regular literature.
In 2015, Janina Orlov won a 15,000 Euro prize for her work with Finnish literature.
She was married to
Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017) was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film ''Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen'').
Stark has collaborated with the ...
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Bibliography
*Texten som kalejdoskop: en läsning av A. S. Pusjkins "Sagan om tsar Saltan". Åbo: Åbo Akademis publishers. Libris 10025554. (2014)
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External links
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1955 births
Finnish translators
Living people
Swedish-speaking Finns
Åbo Akademi University alumni
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