Residency artists and researchers Literature Marja-Leena Mikkola Author, MA I am a writer and a translator into Finnish. I have published short story collections, novels, documentaries, composed song lyrics and written TV and movie scripts, essays and reviews. I have also translated Italian, English and Russian prose and poetry. I have translated reasonably large collections of poetry by Anna Ahmatova, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak. They belong to the so-called Silver Age of Russian poetry. Maria Tsvetajeva is, however, missing from the group and I will be delving into her poetry at the Saari Residence. I will also be looking at research and bibliographies written about her as well as her correspondence. I will spend this time translating poetry and writing extensive notes for a future work on Tsvetajeva.