Kari Klemelä

Kari Klemelä (b. 1955) lives in Sauvo and has translated into Finnish, inter alia, works by Edvard Radzinski from Russian and the novels of Maja Novak and Evald Flisar and an collection of poems by Ales Debeljak from Slovenian. He is currently working on some Russian detective novels (Akunin, Konstantinov), an anthology of poems by Slovenia's Tomaz Salamun in collaboration with writer Anni Sumari, and a work on the Mediterranean by Croatia's Predrag Matvejevic that has been translated into almost twenty languages, entitled Mediteranski brevir. Klemelä is a member of the jury of the Hollo award for non-fiction translated into Finnish, and Chairman of the Slovenia Association.

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