Arto Paasilinna

Arto Paasilinna
Color photo: Medium shot of Arto Paasilinna, sitting behind a table, speaking into a microphone
October 2007 (aged 65), Helsinki Book Fair
Born(1942-04-20)20 April 1942
Kittilä, Lapland, Finland
Died15 October 2018(2018-10-15) (aged 76)
Espoo, Finland
Occupationjournalist, novelist, poet
CitizenshipFinland
EducationAdult Education College, Lapland (1962-1963)
Periodsince 1972 (fiction)
since 1964 (non-fiction)
Genrepicaresque, comedy, satire
Notable worksThe Year of the Hare (1975)
The Howling Miller (1981)
Notable awardsAir Inter (France)
1989 The Year of the Hare

Acerbi (Italy)
1994 The Year of the Hare

UNESCO Collection
1994 The Year of the Hare
RelativesErno Paasilinna (brother)
Reino Paasilinna (brother)
Sepia photo: Face shot of Arto Paasilinna, speaking in a microphone.
Paasilinna at the age of 65 in November 2007

Arto Tapio Paasilinna (Finnish: [ˈɑrto ˈpɑːsiˌlinːɑ], approximately AR-toh PAH-see-LEEN-nah; 20 April 1942 – 15 October 2018[1][2][3]) was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists,[4] he won a broad readership outside of Finland[5] in a way few other Finnish authors have before.[4][6][7] Translated into 27 languages,[8] over seven million copies[6] of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".[7]

Paasilinna is mostly known[4] for his 1975 novel The Year of the Hare (Jäniksen vuosi), a bestseller in France and Finland,[9] translated into 18[5] languages, awarded three international prizes, and adapted twice into feature films: a 1977 Finnish film directed by Risto Jarva called The Year of the Hare, and a 2006 French film directed by Marc Rivière called Le Lièvre de Vatanen.

Arto Paasilinna's brothers are the writers Erno Paasilinna, Reino Paasilinna and Mauri Paasilinna.

  1. ^ "Kirjailija Arto Paasilinna on kuollut – Veli Reino Paasilinna: "Arto oli vetävä persoona, joka löysi aina temppuilun aiheen"". 16 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Arto Paasilinna 20.4.1942–15.10.2018" (in Finnish). WSOY.
  3. ^ "Författaren Arto Paasilinna död – blev 76 år gammal".
  4. ^ a b c "Arto Paasilinna". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13.exVirtual Finland, 2007 Archived at Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference wsoy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  9. ^ The Year of the Hare (tr. Herbert Lomas), London: Peter Owens Publishers, 1995, back-cover notes.