Residency artists and researchers Literature Marianna Kurtto Author, poet I am an author, translator and occasional literary critic from Helsinki. So far, I have published three anthologies: my first collection Eksyneitten valtakunta (“kingdom of the lost,” WSOY 2006), had an emphasis on prose poetry; it was followed by Maisemasta läpi (“through the landscape,” WSOY 2009) which was inspired by the landscape science of J.G. Granö; and my latest collection is the Napoleon-themed Auringon koko voimalla (“with all the power of the sun,” WSOY 2011). In 2007, I graduated from the University of Helsinki having majored in English Philology, and have since then translated a novel and several non-fiction works from English to Finnish. Not only do I dream of being an author, but also of a long career as a translator and possibly of post-graduate studies as well. I have written literary criticism mainly for the literary journal Parnasso. At the Saari Residence, I will be working on my fourth anthology, the current working title of which is Kohti kattokruunujen alakuloa (“towards the melancholy of chandeliers”). The collection revolves around humoristic texts that have to do with storytelling, hobbies and travel. I am also working on my first manuscript for a novel in which a cataclysm of nature changes the lives of the habitants of a remote oceanic island.