Residency artists and researchers Literature Ranskanperunat Translator group Ranskanperunat (French Fries) is a group of translators and editors of French work into Finnish. Tiina Arppe’s area of expertise as a translator into Finnish is French philosophy and sociology. Reita Lounatvuori is well established as a translator of plays, and Titia Schuurman and Anna-Maija Viitanen translate general fiction and non-fiction. Copy editor Aino Rajala is also part of the group, as is Saara Pääkkönen as a translator of comic books and also as an editor. “The one-week stay at the Saari Residence gave us the rare opportunity to become further acquainted with specialized areas, to learn from each other, and to gain new perspectives with which to develop our own work. At Saari we did planning work on the following translations: David Le Breton’s Anthropologie du corps et modernité, Marie Ndiaye’s play Hilda, Claudie Gallay’s novel Dans l’or du temps, and the novel Léon l’Africain by Amin Maalouf. We also collaborated during our stay with three guests, adjunct professor of translation studies Outi Paloposki and translators Antti Nylén and Annikki Suni”.