Rosa Liksom

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Rosa Liksom (2011)
Rosa Liksom (2012)

Rosa Liksom ( pseudonym for Anni Ylävaara , born January 7, 1958 in Ylitornio ) is a Finnish writer, painter, filmmaker and performance artist .

life and work

Rosa Liksom grew up as the youngest of six children in a small village in northern Finnish Lapland. In 1977 she went to Helsinki and studied anthropology and social sciences there and then in Copenhagen and Moscow . In Finland she worked at times as a filleter in a fish factory, as a bartender, flea market seller and as an editor for the radio. She spent the years 1982 to 1986 in the free city of Christiania in Copenhagen , where she wrote her first three books. She then traveled to Siberia and Mongolia, later to China and then stayed for a long time in the USA.

Liksom now works as a writer and artist (painting, performance and comics). Her pictures have been exhibited in London, Amsterdam, Moscow and other foreign cities; some of her works are in the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki. She wrote scripts, for example Missä on suuri pohjoinen / Where is the big north (1991) and a play. As a filmmaker, she made documentaries and videos, including in 1998 about her burka project and the Finlandia trilogy (2008 to 2010).

In her short stories, Liksom deals with people on the margins of society. Her texts are unconventional, often burlesque, and depict the abysmal depths of human existence in a startlingly clear manner. She judges

“ Their interest in the losers and outsiders of society, but not in the sense of socially critical analyzes. She often lets her characters have their own say, thereby giving space to forms of language that were previously not considered literary. Basically, it is practicing a kind of literary folklore, because it presents both members of the urban subculture and residents of the most remote province. "

- Vuokko Hirvonen

Liksom's best-known work is her Picaresque novel Kreisland (1996; German 1999: Crazeland = Kreisland ). "He's postmodern satire and baroque world theater." Impi Agafiina, the talented protagonist from a poor family, as well as the author in the remote Lapland born roams with the enterprising spirit of Pippi Longstocking the world to finally return to the simple life to Lapland again. On her adventurous journey, including stops in Moscow and the USA, she goes through a few skins and exposes the nonsense of great ideologies. Kreisland is not written exclusively in today's standard Finnish: parts of the novel are written in the northern Finnish dialect of the author's homeland, others in Old Finnish and still others in the language of the upper class of the first half of the century.

Liksom received numerous awards, especially for county . With the Finlandia Prize for Hytti nro 6 , she was honored with one of the most prestigious Finnish literary prizes in 2011. In 2020 she was awarded the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy . Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. It produces itself nonconformistically as a total work of art and appears, for example, at its vernissages with its dark sunglasses every time in a different, unconventional outfit . Liksom has a daughter and lives in Helsinki.

Fonts

Finnish original editions

Novels
  • 1996: county
  • 2002: Reitari
  • 2011: Hytti nro 6
Stories, travelogues
  • 1985: Yhden yön pysäkki
  • 1986: Unohdettu vartti
  • 1987: Väliasema Gagarin
  • 1988: Go Moskova go . Photos: Jukka Uotila
  • 1989: Tyhjän tien paratiisit
  • 1993: BamaLama
  • 2000: Perhe
  • 2006: Maa
Books for children and young readers
  • 2000: Jepata Nastan lentomatka
  • 2004: Tivoli Tähtisade

German-language editions

  • Black paradises. Stories . From the Finnish by Anu Pyykönen-Stohner and Friedbert Stohner. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-499-13025-4 .
  • Lost moments. Stories . From the Finnish by Anu Pyykönen-Stohner and Friedbert Stohner. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992. ISBN 3-499-13005-X .
  • Crazeland = county . Translated from Finnish by Stefan Moster . Eichborn, Frankfurt (Main) 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0571-4 .
  • Compartment No. 6 . Translated from Finnish by Stefan Moster . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2013, ISBN 3-421-04583-6 .

literature

  • Joachim Böger: Rosa Liksom conveys a different picture of Lapland . In: German-Finnish Rundschau , No. 58, September 1988.
  • Vuokko Hirvonen: Literary anthropology in its own language . In: Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X .
  • Sam Inkinen: Rosa Liksom . On the author's website.
  • Chris Pawling: Liksom's Short Stories and the Ironies of Contemporary Existence . CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.4, 2002.
  • Barbara Schweizer-Meyer: Portrait of a Nonconformist. The Finnish writer Rosa Liksom and her novel Crazeland . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof of work ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kokoelmat.fng.fi
  2. ↑ Jürg Glauser (editor): Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X , page 445
  3. ↑ Anna-Riitta Tunturi: The picaresque novel as a catalyst in historical processes. Narrative communication models in The Life of Lazarillo von Tormes, in Thomas Mann and in some Finnish novels . University of Jyväskylä 2005, ISBN 951-39-2261-8
  4. ↑ Barbara Schweizer-Meyer. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Liksom, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ylävaara, Anni (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish writer, artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ylitornio