In Finland, her writing has received considerable attention and many further awards. Sinsalo's first novel, Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi ( 2000 trans Herbert Lomas as Not Before Sundown 2003 vt Troll: A Love Story 2004), won the Finlandia Prize for best Finnish novel, Finland's highest annual literary Award and in translation the James Tiptree Jr Award in 2004. She wrote the storyline for the Finnish satiric sf film Iron Sky ( 2012). She has also written many Comics and Graphic Novel scripts, including for a period the Moomin comic, and many Television dramas. She has since published more than 40 stories, seven times winning the Finnish Atorox award for the year's best short sf her first story in English, 'Baby Doll' (written 2002 trans in The SFWA European Hall of Fame, anth 2007, ed James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow), was nominated for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Her first published stories, 'Kilometripylväät' and 'Jäinen kaupunki', appeared together in the Finnish Original Anthology Vuosirengas 74 (anth 1974 ed anon). (1958- ) Finnish author who studied literature and drama at the University of Tampere, then worked in advertising while writing short stories, virtually all sf or fantasy in 1997, she turned to full-time writing.

Troll by Johanna Sinisalo