Arto Paasilinna is a writer Finnish, of language Finnois E, born the April 20th 1942 with Kittilä in Finnish Lapland. He is the author of many novels and news which was translated in addition to 20 languages. He also writes for the Cinéma, the radio and the Télévision. Paasilinna is, with Mika Waltari, one of the current Finnish writers most known in the world.

Biography

Personal course

Arto Paasilinna was born in a truck, into full Exode; its family, fleeing the armies Nazi be, is driven out towards the Norway, then the Sweden and the Finnish Lapland. Paasilinna - which means in Finnish " fortress of pierre" - is a name invented by his/her father, who had been annoyed with his parents at the point to change name. The circumstances of its birth and the first years of its life made say to Paasilinna: " I knew four different states in my earliest youth. The escape became a constant in my accounts, but there is something of positive in the escape, so front there was combat".

As of the thirteen years age, he exerts various trades, of which those of Bûcheron and farm laborer. At twenty years, it decides to resume its studies in order to become journalist and goes to the university of popular education of Lapland (1962-1963). It enters then, as journalist-trainee, with the regional newspaper Lapin Kansa ( Lappish people ). Speaking about this time of its life, Paasilinna indicated: " I was a boy of the forests, working the ground, wood, fishing, hunting, all this culture which one finds in my books. I was wood float on the rivers of north, a kind of aristocracy of these fixed without-residence, I passed from a physical work to Journaliste, I went from the forest to the city. Journalist, I wrote thousands of serious articles, it is a good drive to write things more intéressantes".

He collaborates of 1963 to 1988 in various newspapers and literary reviews.

He is married in Terttu Annikki Paasilinna, born Kasper. He has two wire: Jyrki Petteri (1964) and Janne (1967). Paasilinna lives with Espoo close to Helsinki.

Literary course

The literary work of Arto Paasilinna is made up of many novels and news (about thirty to date), of which some were translated in more than 20 languages (in particular in French). Its works are characterized by a direction of rare humor and narration; they are filled of a rare good mood and a joviality in the literature contemporary, of a humor soft-land-mark and burlesque. The singular characters, who live in various areas of Finland, are the outstanding feature of its writings. Nature is, itself, a character with whole share in his novels. So works of Paasilinna are often described as " novels of humor écologique".

The first novels are " kind; grinçant" : Captive of the paradise , the hare of Vatanen , a happy man , the Miller howling , the Forest of the hung foxes … most known of those is the Hare of Vatanen (1975), which was carried to the screen in 1977 by Risto Jarva and in 2006 by Marc Rivière. The second period is rather " picaresque" , with Small suicides between friends , the Son of God of the storm and the Bestial Servant of Pasteur Huuskonnen .

Questioned on the continuation of its career of writer, Paasilinna answered: " The Finns are not worse than the others, but sufficiently bad so that I have what to write until the end of my jours".

Arto Paasilinna also wrote for the cinema, the radio and television; it is interested in graphic arts and writing of the poems.

Its works

Its novels

• Operaatio Finlandia, 1972

• Paratiisisaaren vangit, 1974
• Jäniksen vuosi, 1975
• Onnellinen crumbs, 1976
• Isoisää etsimässä, 1977
• Sotahevonen, 1979
• Herranen aika, 1980
• Ulvova mylläri, 1981
• Kultainen nousukas, 1982
• Hirtettyjen kettujen metsä, 1983
• Ukkosenjumalan poika, 1984
• Parasjalkainen laivanvarustaja, 1985
• Vapahtaja Surunen, 1986
• Koikkalainen kaukaa, 1987
• Suloinen myrkynkeittäjä, 1988
• Auta armias, 1989
• Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha, 1990
• Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä, 1991
• Maailman paras kylä, 1992
• Aatami ja Eeva, 1993
• Volomari Volotisen ensimmäinen vaimo ja muuta vanhaa tavaraa, 1994
• Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelija, 1995
• Lentävä kirvesmies, 1996
• Tuomiopäivän aurinko nousee, 1997
• Hirttämättömien lurjusten yrttitarha, 1998
• Hirnuva maailmanloppu, 1999
• Ihmiskunnan loppulaukka, 2000
• Kymmenen riivinrautaa, 2001
• Liikemies Liljeroosin ilmalaivat, 2003
• Tohelo suojelusenkeli, 2004
• Suomalainen kärsäkirja, 2005

Other works

• Karhunkaataja Ikä-Alpi, 1964

• Kansallinen vieraskirja, graffiitti eli vessakirjoituksia 1971
• Natalia 1979
• Sadan vuoden savotta 2002
• Yhdeksän unelmaa 2003

Novels translated into French

• Captive of the paradise ( Paratiisisaaren vangit , 1974, transl. france 1996)

• the hare of Vatanen ( Jäniksen vuosi , 1975, transl. france 1989)
• a happy man - ( Onnellinen crumbs , 1976, transl. france 2005)
• the Miller howling ( Ulvova mylläri , 1981, transl. france 1991)
• the Forest of the hung foxes ( Hirtettyjen kettujen metsä , 1983, transl. france 1994)
• the Son of the god ofstorm ( Ukkosenjumalan poika , 1984, transl. france 1993)
• Soft Empoisonneuse ( Suloinen myrkynkeittäjä , 1988, transl. france 2001)
• Small suicides between friends ( Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha , 1990, transl. france 2003)
• the Mare of the geometrician ( Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä , 1991, transl. france 1998)
• the Bestial servant of Pasteur Huuskonen - ( Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelija , 1995, transl. france 2007)
• the Best Village of the world - (transl. france spring 2008)

External bonds

• Biography of the author and summaries of his works