Finnish author, Leena Krohn, was born in 1947. She has written 30 books in Finnish including novels, short stories, essays and children's books. Her books have been translated into 15 different languages: English, Bulgarian, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, German, Korean and Lithuanian. Some of her children's books were illustrated herself, but most of them were illustrated by her sister, Inari Krohn. Through her works, Krohn mostly talks about relationships between fiction and reality, art and moral, perception and imagination. The technological evolution is one of her interests, too. She thinks that fantasy can sometimes be the shortest way to truth. In her novel, Datura, she says that the reality is only a working hypothesis. It is an agreement, which we do not know we did. It is an illusion, which everyone experiences. Fiction and reality are living in a symbiosis. You cannot tear them apart. Perception and imagination are not different processes. Our human world is an extraordinary reality, built both on facts and on illusions. Krohn has received several prizes, including the Finlandia Prize for Literature in 1992. Her short novel, Tainaron: Mail From Another City, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award in 2005. She is now living on the southern coast of Finland with her husband Mikael Böök, two cats and garden. She also has a journalist son, whose name is Elias.
