About Janina Orlov
Born 1955. Janina Orlov is a Swedish translator and writer.
Janina Maria Orlov (born 10 February 1955) is a Finnish-Swedish translator of literature. She took her PhD in the Russian language in 2005 at Åbo Akademi with a text about Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Orlov translates books from Russian and Finnish to Swedish, and specializes in children's books and youth literature, but also regular literature.
In 2015, Janina Orlov won a 15,000 Euro prize for her work with Finnish literature.
She was married to Ulf Stark.
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Swedish-speaking Finnish translator and writer
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Janina Orlov was born on 10 February 1955 in Helsinki.
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Janina Orlov is Swedish.
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