Rosa Liksom was born and raised in the
Meänkieli-speaking town of
Ylitornio in
Finnish Lapland. As a teenager she moved to Rovaniemi and then to Helsinki. She studied
anthropology and
social sciences at the universities of
Helsinki,
Copenhagen and
Moscow. She won the
J. H. Erkko Award in 1985 for her
debut novel Yhden yön pysäkki and the Finlandia Prize in 2011 for
Hytti nro 6. Of these, the
2021 film version based on
Hytti nro 6 was selected to compete for the
Palme d'Or at the
2021 Cannes Film Festival, and it won the
Grand Prix. In 2016, the French government appointed Liksom a Chevalier (Knight) of the
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