Sirkka Turkka

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Sirkka Turkka (2008)

Sirkka Turkka (born February 2, 1939 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish poet. Her works have now been translated into twelve languages.

Turkka was born in 1939 as the daughter of Major Josef Wilhelm Turkka and Chancellor Elsa Mirjam Luoko. She attended a school in Munkkiniemi , which she successfully completed in 1962. She then studied at the University of Helsinki, where she did a bachelor's degree in human sciences in 1967 . She then attended the horse breeding college in Ypäjä until 1970 .

Sirkka Turkka lives in Lohja and has been working as a freelance writer since 1974. In 1987 she was the first female poet to receive the Finlandia Prize . In addition to her activities as a poet, she also worked in various hospital libraries, was employed as a stable master in Espoo in 1980/81 and from 1984 to 1986 as a zookeeper in a manor house in Urjala .

Works

  • 1973: Huone avaruudessa
  • 1976: Minä se olen
  • 1978: Yö aukeaa kuin viljaa
  • 1979: Bad joka rakasti vaimoaan liika
  • 1981: Kaunis hallitsija
  • 1983: Vaikka on kesä
  • 1986: Tule takaisin, pikku Sheba ( Eng . Come back, little Sheba )
  • 1989: Voiman ääni
  • 1993: Sielun veli (German Sielu's brother )
  • 1997: Nousevan auringon talo
  • 1999: Tulin tumman metsän läpi
  • 2004: Niin kovaa se tuuli löi

Some of her poems have been translated into German:

  • Liisi Tandefelt, Gisbert Jänicke (translation): Glass painting. (Finnish poems, text booklet for a collage of poems) Helsinki 1990;
  • Ludwig Bauer (ed.): Finnish poems. Rosenheim 1990.
  • Ingrid Schellbach-Kopra (Ed.): As quiet as light in a windless area. From Loeper Verlag, Karlsruhe 1985.
  • Dorothea Grünzweig , Gisbert Jänicke: Between the Lines , Issue 17, October 2001, ISBN 978-3-905591-19-4

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Sound of Strength
personal data
SURNAME Turkka, Sirkka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki