Cristina Sandu

Author

Cristina Sandu (b. 1989) was born in Helsinki​ ​to​ ​a Finnish-Romanian family who loved books.​​ ​S​he​​​ ​has studied literature at the University of​ ​Sorbonne, the University of ​Helsinki and the University of Edinburgh​. She currently lives in the UK and works as a full-time writer. She has also lived in France and Italy, ​​and ​speaks six languages. 

Her debut novel, The Whale Called Goliath (2017), was nominated for the Finlandia Prize. The Union of Synchronised Swimmers (2019) won the Toisinkoinen Literary Prize and was her first book to be published in English.

Her novels have been translated to eight languages.

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