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Lola
Rogers

Lola Rogers is a full-time literary translator living in Seattle. She has translated novels, short stories, children’s books, comics, and poetry. Lola’s translation of Sofi Oksanen’s novel When the Doves Disappeared was a finalist for the 2016 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and her translation of Johanna Sinisalo’s The Core of the Sun received the 2017 Prometheus Award. Lola is a founding member of the Finnish-English Literary Translation Cooperative.

Lola Rogers is a full-time literary translator living in Seattle. She has translated novels, short stories, children’s books, comics, and poetry. Lola’s translation of Sofi Oksanen’s novel When the Doves Disappeared was a finalist for the 2016 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and her translation of Johanna Sinisalo’s The Core of the Sun received the 2017 Prometheus Award. Lola is a founding member of the Finnish-English Literary Translation Cooperative.

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