Rosa Liksom
Encyclopedia
Rosa Liksom—née Anni Ylävaara, January 7, 1958, Ylitornio
—is a Finnish
writer and artist.
She has studied antropology at the Helsinki
and Copenhagen
and social sciences
at the University of Moscow. She won the J. H. Erkko Award in 1985 for her debut novel Yhden yön pysäkki.
Liksom avoids publicity, and has seldom allowed herself to be photographed.
Ylitornio
Ylitornio is a municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Lapland at the shore of the Torne River, opposite to Övertorneå. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....
—is a Finnish
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
writer and artist.
She has studied antropology at the Helsinki
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...
and Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...
and social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
at the University of Moscow. She won the J. H. Erkko Award in 1985 for her debut novel Yhden yön pysäkki.
Liksom avoids publicity, and has seldom allowed herself to be photographed.
Short stories
- Yhden yön pysäkki, 1985
- Unohdettu vartti, 1986
- Väliasema Gagarin, 1987
- Go Moskova go, 1988
- Tyhjän tien paratiisit, 1989
- Bamalama, 1993
- Perhe, 2000
- Maa, 2006