Tuomas Kyrö (born June 4, 1974, in
Helsinki
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) is a Finnish author and
cartoonist
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. He has written novels,
columns
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,
causerie
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s and plays and drawn comics and cartoons.
Kyrö has received a prize from the
Kalevi Jäntti Foundation Kalevi may refer to
* Kalevi (mythology), an ancient Finnish and Estonian ruler, known from the Finnish epic Kalevala and Estonian epic Kalevipoeg.
* Kalevi, Estonia
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in 2005 and the
Young Aleksis Prize in 2006. His novel ''Liitto'' was a candidate for the
Finlandia Prize
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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 Grump ( ‘a person who always gets upset’) is a fictional character created by the Finnish author Tuomas Kyrö for a causerie series.
Personality and whereabouts
The Grump is a man who writes letters-to-the-editor for various newspapers, f ...
'' (‘The Man Who Gets Upset About Things’) appeared in 2010, and it was based on the
radio drama
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series with the same title, broadcast by
YLE
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in
Radio Suomi
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, in which
Antti Litja
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Litja made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared o ...
played the key character.
Tuomas Kyrö was the first person to be granted residence in the
Eeva Joenpelto
Eeva Elisabeth Joenpelto (17 June 1921, Sammatti, Finland – 28 January 2004, Lohja, Finland), married name after 1945 Hellemann, was an award-winning Finnish novelist. Her writing is especially remembered for the Lohja tetralogy which depicted ...
authors’ home in 2005–2009. He lives in
Janakkala
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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,
Teos
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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)
Finnish writers
1974 births
Living people
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