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Portrait image of Arto Paasilinna Photo: Ulla Montan

Paasilinna, Arto

Country/Region:
Finland
Born:
April 20, 1942
Dead:
October 15, 2018
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose
Arto Paasilinna was born in Kittilä in the Finnish part of Lapland. His father died from pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 46. Arto was then only eight years old. The youngest sister was buried in the same grave as the father at the same time, after having been struck by meningitis. The large family was at that time living in a log cabin in Tervola. There were two rooms, one for the animals and one for the family. It was hard work in the forest and on the little farm for the many children of the Paasilinna family, a not very unusual situation in the Finnish woodlands of the postwar period.

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