Valli, Suvi

Suvi Valli, b. 1977 in Viitasaari, Finland, is a Finnish author and translator. She has published three books of poems and a book of essays called Hallittua kaatumista, which was nominated for the national Runeberg Prize in Finland. Her third book of poems received the Nihil Interit Prize as the best Finnish poetry book of the year.
Her translations from German into Finnish include works by Johann Gottfried Seume and Judith Schalansky, as well as contemporary German and Austrian poetry. Seume’s travel journal Mein Sommer 1805 was published in Finland in 2018 under the title Kesä 1805. Valli has also published cut-up collages, animations, and poetry videos.