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Jaana Kapari Jatta - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Jaana Kapari Jatta
- Jaana Marjatta Kapari-Jatta (born 19 May 1955, in Turku) is a Finnish translator of fiction, best known for her Finnish-language renderings of the Harry Potter novels and supplementary books by J.
- K.
- Rowling, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
- In her translations of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, she used the pseudonym “Kurvaa Aka (Whoss Gue)”. Ms.
- Kapari-Jatta has also translated several other English-language authors, like Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, and Roald Dahl, into Finnish.
- Among the awards she has received are the Astrid Lindgren Prize of the International Federation of Translators in 2002 and the Finnish State Prize for Children’s Culture in 2007.
- In 2014 she received the J.
- A.
- Hollo Prize for her translation of Virginia Woolf’s book The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.In 2008, she published a fact book, Pollomuhku ja Posityyhtynen, where she discusses translating the Harry Potter novels. Ms.
- Kapari-Jatta is married and has three children and also grandchildren.
- She resides in Loviisa, Finland, and in Serekunda, Gambia.
