Takako Servo

Languages

Mother tongue

Japanese

Translates from

Finnish

Translates to

Japanese

Other language skills

English

Education

Academic degree

MA, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1999 (International Studies and Diplomacy)

Additional subject-specific studies

Hiroshima Prefectural University, BA in Business Administration. 1995

Translations

Interests and specialisation

Fiction, Prose, Crime/detective, Non-fiction, Anthropology, Architecture, Art history, Communications, Economics, Geography, History, Industrial art, Literature, Pedagogy and education, Philosophy, Political science, Publishing, Social policy

List of translations

Sekai kara Koohii ga nakunaru mae ni. Seidosha, 2019. Original title: Kahvivallankumous by Petri Leppänen & Lari Salomaa. Genre: Non-fiction. Reprint in early 2020.

Kiseiseibutsu no hateshinaki sinka. Soushisha, 2021. Original title: Loputtomat loiset by Tuomas Aivelo. Genre: Non-fiction. Popular science

Marimekko no kyuuseishu, Kirsti Paakkanen no monogatari. Syodensha, 2021. Original title: Suurin niistä on rakkaus: Kirsti Paakkasen tarina by Ulla-Maija Paavilainen. Genre: Non-fiction. Biography

Moomin no umi no oya, Tove Jansson. Kawadeshobo Shinsha, 2014. Original title: Tee työtä ja rakasta by Tuula Karjalainen. Genre: Non-fiction. Art histry, biography.

Now translating

Finnish classic fiction.



I will be pleased to write reader’s reports.

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Updated: 5.1.2022