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Arto Paasilinna (1942–2018)

Autor(a) de The Year of the Hare

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Arto Paasilinna was born on April 20, 1942 in the Alakylä part of the municipality of Kittilä, in Lapland, Finland. Arto Paasilinna studied at the General and Elementary School Line at the Lapland Folk Academy. He initially worked as a journalist at Nuoren Voiman Liitto, Nuori Voima-lehti and mostrar mais various newspapers as writer and editor. At the weekly magazine Apu, he was an editor from 1968 - 1970 and later a columnist from 1975 - 1988. In 1975 he wrote The Year of the Hare in response to his feeling that journalism was becoming superficial and meaningless. The book was an immediate success and from 1975 on Paasilinna became an independent writer. He still writes journalism articles and has been a columnist on Finnish radio. In 2002, for Paasilinna's 60th anniversary, journalist Eino Leino published a biography of Paasilinna called Lentojätkä. Arto Paasilinnan elämä" ("The Flight Dude"). The same year Paasilinna published his own autobiography called Yhdeksän unelmaa ("Nine Night's Dream"). As of 2009, Paasilinna has published about 12 non-fiction books and 35 novels, with almost one novel each year from 1972 to 2009. Paasilinna's books reflect quite common Finnish life, usually from a middle-aged male perspective, and in rural Finland. His title Year of the Hare made the New York Times Best Seller list for 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Arto Paasilinna at the Central House of Artist (Moscow, Russia), 2007. Photo by Wikipedia user "Bff".

Obras por Arto Paasilinna

The Year of the Hare (1989) 1,577 exemplares
A Charming Mass Suicide (1990) 892 exemplares
The Howling Miller (1981) 538 exemplares
The Sweet Poison Cook (1988) 478 exemplares
The Forest of the Hanged Foxes (1983) 391 exemplares
Life short, Rytkönen long (1991) 290 exemplares
Ukkosenjumalan poika (1984) 244 exemplares
Maailman paras kylä (1992) 227 exemplares
Onnellinen mies (1976) 196 exemplares
Paratiisisaaren vangit (1997) 195 exemplares
Kymmenen riivinrautaa (2001) 174 exemplares
Heaven Help Us (1989) 148 exemplares
Herranen aika (1980) 146 exemplares
Adam och Eva (1993) 136 exemplares
La fattoria dei malfattori (1998) 126 exemplares
Suomalainen kärsäkirja (2005) 91 exemplares
Tohelo suojelusenkeli : romaani (2004) 87 exemplares
Sang chaud, nerfs d'acier (2006) 86 exemplares
Tuomiopäivän aurinko nousee (1997) 68 exemplares
Vapahtaja Surunen (1986) 61 exemplares
Isoisää etsimässä (1977) 46 exemplares
Liikemies Liljeroosin ilmalaivat (2003) 45 exemplares
Rietas rukousmylly : romaani (2007) 42 exemplares
Parasjalkainen laivanvarustaja (1985) 39 exemplares
Ihmiskunnan loppulaukka : romaani (2000) 36 exemplares
Koikkalainen kaukaa : romaani (1987) 34 exemplares
Sotahevonen : romaani (1979) 32 exemplares
Lentävä kirvesmies (1996) 28 exemplares
Kultainen nousukas : romaani (1982) 23 exemplares
Neitosten karkuretki : romaani (2008) 17 exemplares
Ronkoteus : lentävä kirvesmies (2002) 15 exemplares
Yhdeksän unelmaa (2002) 14 exemplares
La Forêt des Renards Pendus (2016) 5 exemplares
KARHUNKAATAJA IKÄ-ALPI (2007) 4 exemplares
Eurooppalaiset kasvot (1980) 4 exemplares
Piruparat (1992) 3 exemplares
Karvainen kamaripalvelija (2006) 3 exemplares
Sadan vuoden savotta (2003) 2 exemplares
Uskonnollinen trilogia (1992) 2 exemplares
Kuusilaakson tarinoita (2006) 2 exemplares
Hors-la-loi (2015) 2 exemplares
Vaellustarinat (1992) 1 exemplar
Suomalaisten kulkupelit (2008) 1 exemplar
Yksinaiset taistelijat (1992) 1 exemplar
Sotajutut (Finnish Edition) (1992) 1 exemplar
Meri- ja avaruusmatkailijat (1992) 1 exemplar
Paasilinna Arto 1 exemplar
Nezhnaia otravitelnitsa (2008) 1 exemplar

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This short Finnish tale follows Vatanen, a journalist who decides his meandering life comprising of a dull job, miserable and controlling wife and insufficient friend, isn't what he wants or needs. He arrives at this realisation upon running to the aid of a young hare that he and his friend have hit whilst driving. In outrage to his illogical worry towards a common countryside creature his friend decides to teach Vatanen a lesson by driving off leaving him stranded in the wilderness. The lesson Vatanen learns spans the entire year as he sheds his former restrictive life and roams wild and free across Finland as a trusted ward to the hare. And in their companionship they share many an adventure, which in turn gives the reader a taste of Finnish life and the pertinent characters and politics of the time.… (mais)
 
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adze117 | 20 outras críticas | Sep 24, 2023 |
Un vieil homme, qui perd la mémoire des évènements récents, prend un jour un taxi. Ne sachant ni d'où il vient ni où il va, il entraîne le chauffeur dans une errance à travers le grand Nord finlandais, une "cavale" riche en épisodes rocambolesques et rencontres fantaisistes
 
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Dabs | 8 outras críticas | Sep 4, 2023 |
Now that I've decided to try to 'review' each book that I have cataloged, there will be books( like this one) where I may recall reading it some years ago, may or may not remember how or why I liked it, but still can recall only a few or maybe no details about the experience.
 
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