Residency artists and researchers Literature Eeva-Kaarina Aronen Author Eeva-Kaarina Aronen (born 1948) worked as a journalist on the monthly supplement of the largest-selling national newspaper the Helsingin Sanomat until 2008. She has published two books. Her first novel was Maria Renforsin totuus (The Truth of Maria Renfors, Teos 2005) was published in German in 2007 as Die Lachsfischerin (The Salmon Fisher). Aronen’s second novel, Hän joka näkee (He who Sees, Teos 2007) was also published by Lübbe in German in 2008 as Die Sommer vor meinem Hause (Summertime in Front of my House). Her third novel is due out in autumn 2010. ‘While at the Saari Residence I did preparatory writing and research for my next book, and sketched out some of its events and characters’.