Career
Her debut novel Memory of Water was published by HarperCollins in 2014. Itäranta holds a Master of Arts in Drama from the University of Tampere, and worked as a columnist, theatre critic, script writer and press officer after graduation. In 2007 she enrolled in the postgraduate program of University of Kent, where she began writing her debut novel as a part of her Creative Writing course work.
The novel was published by Teos in 2012 under the name Teemestarin kirja (lit "The Tea Master"s Book").
The English version of the book, Memory of Water, was published by HarperCollins in 2014 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Translation rights of the book have been sold to 21 territories to date, and it has already been published in Arabic, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Estonian, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
Emmi Itäranta"s second novel was published in October 2015 in Finnish, as Kudottujen kujien kaupunki. The English language version is to be published in 2016, under the name The City of Woven Streets in the United Kingdom, and as The Weaver in the United States and Canada.
Emmi Itäranta lives in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
