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Joel Willans
Joel Willans (born 11 May 1972 in Sudbury, Suffolk in Great Britain) is a British copywriter and author. He moved to Finland in 2002 with his Finnish girlfriend, now his wife. Biography Before moving to Finland, Willans spent his early adult life studying history at University of Greenwich in London, working in the advertising business and writing short stories. In Finland, Willans worked as a copywriter before founding an ad agency with his wife. The couple also have two children. Work Willans’ first book, ''Spellbound – Stories of Women's Magic over Men'', was published in England in 2013. The book's short stories describe men falling in love with women. The second book, ''101 Very Finnish Problems – The Foreigner's Guide to Surviving in Finland'', was published in 2017 by Gummerus. The work is a collection of short, causerie-style essays, which use a humorous tone to describe Finnish culture from an outside point of view. Willans based this second book on his Faceb ...
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Joel Willans At Helsinki Book Fair, 2018
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Nordic Countries
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