My dreams

Perhaps right now I am dreaming that all roads would lead to Rome again, or at least somewhere else in Italy. I have always felt at home in Italy, as has my family, and Rome especially continues to lure me, time after time. Sunshine, good food and wine, history and decent museums, aesthetics and street cafés as well as wonderful people and a beautiful language, it is truly a place where the mind is at rest. And in the midst of those ruins you always feel so young!

By Written by Outi Karemaa. Translated by Kaisla Kajava.

Outi Karemaa

Outi Elina Karemaa
Born 11 May, 1969, Riihimäki

Master of Arts 1994 and Doctor of Philosophy 1998 (Finnish History), University of Helsinki

Managing Director, Metsäkustannus Ltd, 2010-
Customer manager, Edita Publishing Ltd, 2010
Manager, general non-fiction and subscriptions, 2006–2010
Head of publications, Edita Publishing Ltd, 2000–2006
Editor, Kleio series, Edita Publishing Ltd, 2000–2006
Project manager, Edita Ltd, 2001
Publishing editor, Edita Ltd, 1998–2000
Stipendiary researcher, 1995–1998
Hourly-paid teacher, History department, University of Helsinki, 1994–1997
Researcher, College of Veterinary Medicine, 1994

Vuoden Johtolanka (‘clue of the year’) literary prize, competition panel member 1997–1998 and The Finnish Whodunnit Society-Suomen Dekkariseura ry and panel member for Like publishers’ crime fiction competition, 2012. Various other positions of trust in communications and publishing.

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Photo: Pekka Lähteenmäki
Written by Outi Karemaa
Translated by John Calton