Kristiina Kolehmainen

Kristiina Kolehmainen (21 November 1956, Kotka, Finland - 27 March 2012, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Finnish-Swedish librarian. She was head of Serieteket, the only special library for comics in Sweden, which she founded in 1996. She participated in and was responsible for a wide series of related events and activities, including the small exhibition which later grew into the Small Press Expo, and from 2012, the Stockholm International Comics Festival. Kolehmainen also worked as a translator, exhibition producer, and festival director.