I met Jaakko Hameen-Anttila, a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the University of Helsinki, on a cool April morning in Tehran a few days after his translation of the first half of Ferdowsi’s ...

Finnish-born poet and translator Anselm Hollo has died in Colorado, USA at the age of 78. He moved there in the 1960s after a stint working for the BBC in London. Hollo was a major figure in advancing ...

This year’s state translation prize has been awarded to Czech translator Vladimir Piskor. He has translated nearly 30 Finnish literary works into the Czech language. These include books by major ...