Rosa Liksom

Pink Liksom (pseudonym for Anni Ylävaara, born January 7, 1958 in Ylitornio ) is a Finnish writer, painter, filmmaker and performance artist.

Life and work

Pink Liksom grew up as the youngest of six children in a small village in northern Finnish Lapland. In 1977 she went to Helsinki and studied there and then in Copenhagen and Moscow, anthropology and social sciences. In Finland, she worked temporarily as Filetiererin in a fish factory as a barmaid, flea market seller and as an editor for the radio. The 1982 to 1986 she spent in Copenhagen in Freetown Christiania, where she wrote her first three books. Then she traveled to Siberia and Mongolia, and later to China and then survived a long time in the United States.

Liksom now works as an author and artist ( painting, performance and comics ). Your images have been exhibited in London, Amsterdam, Moscow and other foreign cities; some of their works are in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. She has written screenplays, for example Missæ on suuri Pohjoinen / Where is the big north (1991) and a play. As a filmmaker, she turned documentary films and videos, among other 1998 on her burqa project and the Finlandia Trilogy (2008 to 2010).

In her short stories to Liksom dealing with people on the margins of society. Her lyrics are unconventional, often burlesque, and make startling clear mental abyss of human existence Represent directed

" Their interest on the losers and outsiders of society, but not in the sense of socially critical analysis. Frequently she allows her characters themselves have their say and are thus forms of language space, not previously considered in the literature capable. Basically, it operates a kind of literary folklore, because it presents both members of the urban subculture as well as residents of the most remote province. "

Liksoms most famous work is her picaresque novel Circle Land ( 1996, German 1999: Crazeland = circle country). "He is post-modern satire and baroque theater of the world. " Impi Agafiina, the talented protagonist from a poor family, was born just as the author in the remote Lapland, roams with the enterprising spirit of Pippi Longstocking the world to finally again return to the simple life in Lapland. On their adventurous journey, with stops among other in Moscow and the U.S., it goes through several molts and exposes the nonsense great ideologies. Circle country is not written exclusively in today's Standard Finnish: parts of the novel are in the northern Finnish dialect of the home of the author, others written in Altfinnisch and others in the language of the upper classes of the first half of the century.

Liksom received numerous awards, particularly for county land. With the Finlandia Prize for Hytti nro 6 2011 she was honored with one of the most respected Finnish literary prizes. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages. It produces non-conformist himself as a Gesamtkunstwerk and occurs for example in their private views with their dark sunglasses every time performance standard in another unconventional outfit on. Liksom has one daughter and lives in Helsinki.

Writings

Finnish original editions

• 2000: Jepata Nastan lentomatka
• 2004: Tivoli Tähtisade

German -language editions

• Black Paradise. Stories. From the Finnish by Anu Pyykönen - Stohner and Friedbert Stohner. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-499-13025-4.
• Lost moments. Stories. From the Finnish by Anu Pyykönen - Stohner and Friedbert Stohner. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992. ISBN 3-499-13005- X.
• Crazeland = circle country. From the Finnish Stefan Moster. Eichborn, Frankfurt (Main ), 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0571-4.
• Compartment No. 6 from the Finnish by Stefan Moster. German publishing house, Munich 2013, ISBN 3-421-04583-6.