Hannu Mäkelä (born 18 August 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is an author of more than 100 books in
Finnish: novels, collections of short stories, edited anthologies and children's books. Hannu Mäkelä is known for his books for children in many countries around the world, especially the ''Herra Huu'' (Mr Boo) series.
Career
Mäkelä writes for both adults and children.
The ''Herra Huu'' series for children is fantasy about a wizard.
Mäkelä's children's books have been published in Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and are especially popular in Russia.
His success in Russia has been explained as a result of his friendship with the writer .
Personal life
Mäkelä has been married five times.
His first marriage was to the children's writer ; they had one son.
His fourth wife, Svetlana Aksjonova, whom he married in 2011, died in 2017.
He married again in 2020.
Awards
* The State Literature Prize,
* The
Eino Leino Prize, 1982
* The
Finlandia Prize
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, 1995
* Commander,
Order of the Lion of Finland
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Works
Novels
*''Traveling all the time'' (1965)
References
External links
Mäkelä's Website
1943 births
Living people
Writers from Helsinki
Finnish male poets
Finnish-language poets
Finnish male novelists
Finnish male short story writers
Finnish short story writers
Finnish children's writers
Finlandia Prize winners
20th-century Finnish novelists
20th-century Finnish poets
20th-century Finnish male writers
Recipients of the Eino Leino Prize
Finnish fantasy writers
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