Raija Siekkinen
Raija Siekkinen was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1998.
Life
Siekkinen graduated from the University of Helsinki with a degree in literature and philosophy in 1981. Since 1978, she has published more than a dozen novels and children's books. She has also worked as a translator.Her first collection of short stories published in German, How Love Is Created, was published in Zurich in 2014.
awards
- 1989: Honorary diploma, German Booksellers Association, Leipzig for Tyttö, puu ja peili.
- 1993: Runeberg Prize for Metallin maku.
- 1998: Eino Leino Prize.