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Tuuve Aro
Tuuve Aro is a Finnish author, who was born and lives in Helsinki. Alongside her work as a writer, she has worked as a film critic and has also done some film producing. Her first book appeared in 1999, and she has published a total of eleven fiction books, six of which are short story collections, three novels and two children's novels. Her debut novel ''Karmiina'' (2004) and collection of short stories have been translated into German (Kookbooks, Suhrkamp). Aro's literary works have also been published in English, Swedish, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Romanian, and Bengali. The short story collection ''Merkki'' (''The Sign'') received the Kalevi Jäntti book award 2006. Its title story was made into a 15 min short film named ''Sirocco'' ( Pohjola-filmi, directed by Mikko Kuparinen), which received the main prize in Odense International Film Festival and the Finnish Artova Film Festival 2013. Although she has published long prose, Aro specializes in short stories both ...
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1973 Births
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21st-century Finnish Novelists
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Finnish Short Story Writers
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Finnish Women Short Story Writers
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Finnish Women Novelists
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Writers From Helsinki
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Kalevi Jäntti Book Award
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Helsinki
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Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
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