Sirkka Turkka
Sirkka Turkka ( born February 2, 1939 in Helsinki) is a Finnish poet. Her works are now translated into twelve languages.
Turkka came in 1939 as a daughter of Major Joseph Wilhelm Turkka and Kanzlistin Elsa Mirjam Luoko to the world. She attended a school in Munkkiniemi who in 1962 successfully completed. She then studied at the University of Helsinki, where in 1967 they received a bachelor's in humanities. Subsequently, she attended until 1970, the College for horse breeding in Ypäjä.
Sirkka Turkka lives in Lohja and has worked since 1974 as a freelance writer. In 1987 she was the first poet who was awarded the Finlandia Prize. In addition to her activities as a poet she was still working in various libraries of hospitals, was 1980/81 employed in Espoo as a stable manager from 1984 to 1986 employed as a veterinary nurse in a mansion in Urjala.
Works
Some of her poems have been translated into German:
- Liisi Tandefelt, Gisbert Jaenicke ( translation ): stained glass. ( Finnish poems, booklet into a collage poems ) Helsinki, 1990;
- Ludwig Bauer ( ed. ): Finnish poems. Rosenheim 1990.
- Ingrid schellbach copra ( Ed. ): Still as light in windless area. From Loeper Verlag, Karlsruhe 1985.
- Dorothea Green branch, Gisbert Jaenicke: Between the lines, Issue 17, October 2001, ISBN 978-3-905591-19-4