carmen baltzar

14 Oct 2026, 18:00
Eriac × DAAD
Conversation: "It Is Not in the Substance, but in the Way of Seeing"
Berlin, Germany

25 Oct 2026, 17:30
Helsinki Book Fair
Interview on my novel carmen with Susanna Hast
Helsinki, Finland

25 Oct 2026, 18:30
Helsinki Book Fair
Interview on my novel carmen with Jiira Kasto / Saturdays Book Club X POC-lukupiiri
Helsinki, Finland

26 Oct 2026
Helsinki Shadow Book Fair
Interview on my novel carmen with Anette Åkerlund
Helsinki, Finland

Carmen Baltzar (Helsinki / Lisbon) is a Finnish-Romani artist working across writing, film, performance and visual arts. Her work creates language and ritual for loss and transformation, metabolizing impermanence through inherited languages of rhythm, storytelling, incantation and spell. Her lyrical debut novel, carmen (2026), is published in Finnish by Kosmos. She co-adapted carmen into the short opera love is a rebellious bird, which premiered at the Finnish National Opera in 2026. Her short film all the love in my body premiered in the international competition at Krakow Film Festival in 2026, and screens at Sarajevo International Film Festival, Helsinki Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama, and others. She holds a BSc in Psychology from City University London and an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking from UCL, and is a member of the Romani Filmmakers Network (RFN).