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| Anni Sumari |
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Anni Sumari was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1965, and studied literature
and media/communication studies at the University of Helsinki. She is the
author of ten books of poetry and prose, including Selected Poems
(2006), The Years Above the Waters (2003), Train Play (2001),
Sinerian
(2000), and Measure and Quantity (1998), for which she won the Finnish
National Broadcasting Company's Dancing Bear Prize for best poetry book
of the year. She has also received an artist's grant from the Finnish Ministry
of Culture for 2004-2006. Active in translation and editing, her works
have been translated into many languages including English, German, French,
Belorussian, Serbian, Slovene and Hebrew. She is a member of the Board
of the Finnish PEN Center. She recently received an artist's grant from
the Finnish Ministry of Culture for 2007-2011, and has edited and translated
a book called Odinn's Steed: The Scandinavian Myths, which has just
come out in Finnish.
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