Residency artists and researchers Literature Katriina Ranne Translator, Ph.D. Katriina Ranne (born 1981) is an author and translator of poetry from Noormarkku, Finland. She has published a novel, Minä, sisareni (Nemo, 2010) and translated poems from Swahili, English and Norwegian for various literary publications. Ranne has also taught Swahili and Swahili literature at the University of London, where she also received her Ph.D. in the spring of 2011. At the Saari Residence, Ranne will be working on two collections of poetry. Her main focus for the past years, an anthology of African poetry, contains two hundred poems chosen and translated into Finnish by Ranne herself. They are originally from thirty African countries south of the Sahara and from seven different source languages. The other work under construction is her first own collection of poetry. Ranne has also been in residency programs in Sysmä, Gotland, Berlin and Iceland. Ranne is looking forward to good conversations, intensive work with words, skating, swimming, sauna and the beauty of nature at the Saari Residence.