2025-11-01
Kaija Anttonen – Translator of the Month
Our translator of the month is Kaija Anttonen from Finland. Originally from Helsinki, Kaija has lived up north for 40 years, 30 years in northern Finland and 10 in northern Norway. She is a qualified translator and interpreter from Swedish and English, and has translated around 70 books thus far in her career. She translates fiction and non-fiction from Norwegian, Northern Sámi, Swedish, Finnish and English into both Finnish and English. When Kaija first moved to the municipality of Inari in the mid-1980s, she started teaching herself Northern Sámi with the help of friends and newspapers. With her knowledge of Swedish providing a strong foundation, she later learned Norwegian while living in Karasjok in the Norwegian county of Finnmark.
