Johanna Sinisalo

Johanna Sinisalo was born in Finnish Lapland in 1958. Not Before Sundown, her acclaimed first novel, has been translated into six languages, and is the first Finnish fiction to be published in this country for six years. Also known in Finland for her television and comic strip writing, Johanna has, in addition to the Finlandia Award, won the Atorox prize for best Finnish SF or fantasy story six times and has been the winner of the Kemi National Comic Strip Contest three times.