Tuomas Kyrö (born June 4, 1974, in

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) is a Finnish author and

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. He has written novels,

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s and plays and drawn comics and cartoons. Kyrö has received a prize from the Kalevi Jäntti Foundation in 2005 and the Young Aleksis Prize in 2006. His novel ''Liitto'' was a candidate for the

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in literature in 2005. The Finnish Sports Museum Foundation chose the book ''Urheilukirja'' (‘Sports Book’) as the Sports Book of the Year in 2011. Kyrö's book '' Mielensäpahoittaja'' (‘The Man Who Gets Upset About Things’) appeared in 2010, and it was based on the

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series with the same title, broadcast by

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in Radio Suomi, in which

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played the key character. Tuomas Kyrö was the first person to be granted residence in the

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authors’ home in 2005–2009. He lives in

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, Finland, together with his family.

Works

Novels

* ''Nahkatakki'' (‘Leather Jacket’). WSOY, Helsinki, 2001. * ''Tilkka''. WSOY, Helsinki, 2003. * ''Liitto'' (‘Union’). WSOY, Helsinki, 2005. * ''Benjamin Kivi'' (‘Benjamin's Stone’). WSOY, Helsinki, 2007. * ''700 grammaa'' (‘700 Grams’). WSOY, Helsinki, 2009. * ''Mielensäpahoittaja''. WSOY, Helsinki, 2010. * ''Kerjäläinen ja jänis'' (‘The Beggar and the Hare’). Siltala, Helsinki, 2011. * Kyrö, Tuomas & Kyrö, Antti: ''Pukin paha päivä'' (‘A Bad Day for Santa’). WSOY, Helsinki, 2011. * ''Miniä'' (‘Daughter-in-Law’). Kirjakauppaliitto, Helsinki, 2012. * ''Mielensäpahoittaja ja ruskeakastike''. WSOY, Helsinki, 2012. * Kyrö, Tuomas & Kyrö, Antti: ''Pukki laivalla''. WSOY, Helsinki, 2012. * ''Kunkku'' ('The King'). Siltala, Helsinki, 2013. . * ''Ilosia aikoja, mielensäpahoittaja''. WSOY, Helsinki, 2014. .

Other Works

* ''Taide ja tolkku'' (‘Art and Reason’). WSOY, Helsinki, 2008. * ''Urheilukirja'' (‘A Sports Book’). Helsinki,

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, 2011.

Sources

WSOY’s authors

References

External links

Tuomas Kyrö in Kirjasampo.fi:ssä (in Finnish)

Tuomas Kyrö reads the Mielensäpahoittaja novellas, videos on the Kirjastokaista website, (in Finnish)

Interview with Tuomas Kyrö in the Image magazine, (in Finnish)
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