Residency artists and researchers Literature Kätlin Kaldmaa Writer, poet, translator Kätlin is an Estonian author, translator and journalist. She has published three collections of poetry (number 4, Rakkauden aakkoset, will be published in February 2012) and around 30 translations of authors like Jeanette Winterson, James Meek, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ali Smith, Gabriel Zaid etc. In the Saari Residency she will be writing her first novel that takes place in Northern Iceland, the place she lost her heart to. In addition to that she is working on the translation of Madeleine Thien’s novel Dogs at the Perimeter and writing an introduction to the anthology of Estonian poetry which will be published in USA.