Thursday, June 2
314 Raitt
1:30 - 3:00pm

Lola Rogers is a graduate of the Masters program in Finnish language and literature at the University of Washington and has received continuing education at the FILI-Finnish Literature Exchange translation seminars and as a FILI translation intern. She has worked as a freelance literary translator full-time since 2007. Her translations have appeared in PEN America Journal, Words Without Borders, Books from Finland, and World Literature Today. Her translation of Sofi Oksanen’s novel Puhdistus (Purge) was published by Grove / Atlantic in 2010. At the moment, she is working on a translation of Riikka Pulkkinen’s 2010 novel Totta (True), to be published by Other Press.