Johanna Holmström

Johanna Holmström (2018)

Johanna Holmström (* 1981 in Sipoo , Finland ) is a Finnish-Swedish author .

Life

Holmström studied journalism and literature. She was married to an Arab man for 10 years and now lives with her two daughters in Helsinki and works as a journalist. She has published three volumes of short stories and three novels in her native language since 2003. The three novels and their collection of novels Camera Obscura from 2009 have also been published in Finnish.

For her novel Asphaltengel , Holmström studied both the Arabic language and the Koran . Asphaltengel was published in German in 2014.

Prizes and awards

• 2004: Nomination for the short story award from Sveriges Radio for Inlåst och andra noveller
• 2009: Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize for Camera Obscura

Publications

• Inlåst och andra noveller , short stories. 2003
• Tvåsamhet , short stories. 2004
• Ur din long , Roman. Söderstrom Publishing House, Helsinki 2007
• Camera Obscura , short stories. 2009
  • Translated into Finnish by Asko Sahlberg: Camera Obscura: novelleja , Teos Verlag, Helsinki 2011, ISBN 978-951-851-428-5 .
• Asfaltsänglar , novel. 2013
  • Translated into Finnish by Tuula Kojo: Itämaa . Otava Publishing House, Helsinki 2013, ISBN 978-951-1-26841-3
  • In German: Asphaltengel , Roman. Ullstein, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-550-08057-9
• Hush baby . 2015
  • Translated into Finnish by Tuula Kojo: Sulja silmäs pienoinen . Otava Publishing House, Helsinki 2015, ISBN 978-951-1-28502-1
• Själarnas ö , novel. 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Johanna Holmström in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's blog (fi./sv.)