Turtschaninoff was born in 1977 in Finland and her first language is
Finland’s Swedish. As a child, she appeared in a minor role in the television series
Harjunpää och antastaren (1985). She received the degree of
Master of Philosophy from
University of Gothenburg in 2000 where she studied
human ecology. After her graduation, she worked as a journalist in Helsinki. The first book of her
Red Abbey Chronicles,
Maresi, was published in Finland in 2014 and won the 2014
Finlandia Junior Prize. The film rights to
Maresi were bought by
Film4 in 2016. The second book of the series,
Naondel, was published in 2016. She was awarded with the
Swedish YLE Literature Prize in 2014 and the
Finland-Swedish cultural prize in 2017. Turtschaninoff was also nominated for the 2015
Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize and the 2018
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. ==References==