(1942-04-20)20 April 1942 Kittilä, Lapland, Finland
Died
15 October 2018(2018-10-15) (aged 76) Espoo, Finland
Occupation
journalist, novelist, poet
Citizenship
Finland
Education
Adult Education College, Lapland (1962-1963)
Period
since 1972 (fiction) since 1964 (non-fiction)
Genre
picaresque, comedy, satire
Notable works
The Year of the Hare (1975) The Howling Miller (1981)
Notable awards
Air Inter (France) 1989 The Year of the Hare
Acerbi (Italy) 1994 The Year of the Hare
UNESCO Collection 1994 The Year of the Hare
Relatives
Erno Paasilinna (brother) Reino Paasilinna (brother)
Paasilinna at the age of 65 in November 2007
Arto Tapio Paasilinna (Finnish:[ˈɑrtoˈpɑːsiˌlinːɑ], 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.
^"Kirjailija Arto Paasilinna on kuollut – Veli Reino Paasilinna: "Arto oli vetävä persoona, joka löysi aina temppuilun aiheen"". 16 October 2018.
^"Arto Paasilinna 20.4.1942–15.10.2018" (in Finnish). WSOY.
^"Författaren Arto Paasilinna död – blev 76 år gammal".
^ abc"Arto Paasilinna". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13.exVirtual Finland, 2007 Archived at Wayback Machine.
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^The Year of the Hare (tr. Herbert Lomas), London: Peter Owens Publishers, 1995, back-cover notes.
Arto Tapio Paasilinna (Finnish: [ˈɑrto ˈpɑːsiˌlinːɑ], approximately AR-toh PAH-see-LEEN-nah; 20 April 1942 – 15 October 2018) was a Finnish writer, being...
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