Solja Krapu-Kallio

Solja Krapu-Kallio

Solja Krapu-Kallio is a poet and author, writing both literary fiction and YA. She debuted as a poet in 1993. With a strong presence and a hint of humor, she uses everyday life as a mirror – with “hits” like “I need the bus driver” and “It started so innocent at the sink.” She has won the Swedish Poetry Slam twice, appeared in about twenty countries and has been a recurring voice in the Swedish Radio’s sequense Thoughts of the day. According to Fredrik Lindström, she writes poems “as I myself wanted to write”. Since a couple of years, she also writes chronicles in the magazine Ica Courier.

Solja’s children’s and YA books also have a playful poetic form, and are illustrated by, among others, Anna-Clara Tidholm and Sara Gimbergsson. For her children’s book debut, she was honored with the Writer’s Award Slangbellan, and for the book What did you dream about she was nominated for the Norrland Literature Prize and the Elsa Beskow Award.

As an author, Solja has also written both novels and short stories.

She was born in Finland, has lived most of her life in the Northern part of Sweden, and consider both  Finland and Sweden as her homelands. Her newest novel, Tomorrow’s post to Vidhäll, is  released in Sweden by Brombergs.

Her books are published in a wide range of countries in Europe, including Scandinavia, France and Holland.