Petronella Zetterlund

(Sweden, 1974). She is a teacher of Hispanic literature, translator, editor, producer and cultural manager. She is co-founder and manager of Nordic Exchange in Literature, a Nordic multilingual literature project, and is co-founder, deputy director and general coordinator of NOX Escuela de Escritura Creativa, where she also teaches literary translation laboratories. Among her translations of Swedish literature, there are  Ma by Ida Börjel (Filodecaballos, 2019), Álbum by Leif Holmstrand (Palacio de la Fatalidad, 2018), Los otros jardines and En el ramaje by Lennart Sjögren (Esquina Tomada, Medellín, 2023) and Cosas que provocan inquietud by Jenny Tunedal (Palacio de la Fatalidad, 2018), among others, as well as the short story collection Alrededor de las rejas, by Agnes von Krusenstjerna (UNAM/Collection Lic. Vidriera, 2020). Since 2017, she has been living in Mexico City, and works independently under the label Petzetera Texts and Other Texts.

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Hispanic literature in the Nordic countries

Roxana Crisólogo

(Peru/Finland). Poet, translator, cultural manager, with a law background.  She has published poetry books: Abajo sobre el cielo (Lima, 1999) whose Finnish translation Alhaalla taivaan yllä was published by Kääntöpiiri (Helsinki, 2001). She also published Animal del camino (Santo Oficio, Lima, 2001; Libros del Cardo, Chile, 2019), Ludy D (Lima, 2006), Trenes (Mexico, 2010). Eisbrecher (Hochroth Verlag, 2017) is the title of the selection of her poetry translated into German. Sotto sopra il cielo is the title of the anthology of her poetry translated into Italian published by Seri Editore. Kauneus La belleza (Intermezzo Tropical, Lima, 2021; Ediciones Nebliplateada, Buenos Aires, 2023) is her penultimate book of poetry, a selection of which was translated into French titled Un jour je m'en irai sans rien emporter (trans. Patricia Houéfa Grange; Éditions KLAC, Bordeaux, 2024). Dónde dejar tanto ruido (Album del Universo Bakterial, Lima, 2023) is her most recent book. Crisólogo lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.  

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Hispanic literature in the Nordic countries

José Luis Rico

(Mexico, 1987)

Poet and translator based in Helsinki. He has published Blanco (2012, La Dïéresis), Duna (2013, FETA), Jabalíes (2015, FETA; Francisco Cervantes Vidal National Prize for Young Poetry) and El aire es esta piedra en la que voy (2015, La Vencedora). In 2021, he curated Arúspice rascacielos, anthology of the work of Mariela Dreyfus, in Lima. He served as editor-in-chief and translator in the anthology of contemporary poetry Saaristo (Sivuvalo, 2023), which brings together 52 Russian-, Spanish-, Finnish- and Arabic-speaking poets. He translated Disco de titanes, by the Finnish poet Sini Silveri (2022) and Fun is a difficult genre, by Juha Rautio (2024) under the label Pitzilein Books. A selection of the poet Tiina Lehikoinen will be published this year by the Chilean publishing house Cinosargo. Rico has been a fellow of the Foundation for Mexican Letters, the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), the Graduate School of New York University, the Center for Artistic Promotion of Finland (TAIKE), and the Niilo Helander and Kone foundations of Finland. He frequents the sauna, and complains about the price of mezcal.

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Hispanic literature in the Nordic countries