Viola Parente-Čapková is a professor of Finnish literature at the University of Turku and a senior lecturer of literary theory at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. She works as a literary theoretician, translator and editor. Her areas of expertise include Finnish literature in a broader European context, literary history and reception, philology and Finnish as a foreign language, gender theory in literary research, narrative medicine and questions of otherness in literature.
She is the author of dozens of translations of poetry and prose from Finnish into Czech, including an anthology of Finnish poetry edited by Michal Švec (Bílé přeludy na vlnách, Pavel Mervart & Praha: Charles University 2021), works by Anja Snellman (Světadíly lásky [Continents of Love], Metafora 2007), and Johanna Sinisalo (Ne před slunce západem [Not Before Sunset], One Woman Press 2003). She is also the author of numerous articles, including those devoted to the work of Kiba Lumberg and her position in Finnish literature, as well as in the context of feminist literature and feminist ethnoautobiography (Romano džaniben 2015; Multiethnica 2011, 2018). She also occasionally translates from Italian and English.
For the Kher publishing house, she has translated two volumes of Kiba Lumberg's Memesa trilogy, published in Czech under the titles Černý motýl (Kher 2024) and Potrhaná křídla (Kher 2025).
