Compartment No. 6

About the Author and the Translator

ROSA LIKSOM was born in a village of eight houses in Lapland, Finland, where her parents were reindeer breeders and farmers. She spent her youth traveling Europe, living as a squatter and in communes. She won the Finlandia Prize in 2011 for Compartment No. 6, which has been translated into thirteen languages. Liksom paints, makes films, and writes in Helsinki.

LOLA ROGERS has translated Finnish novels by Riikka Pulkkinen and Sofi Oksanen, among others. She lives in Seattle, Washington.