Hannu Salama

Hannu Salama was born in Kouvola on 4 October 1936, into a working-class family, and grew up in Pispala, a working-class suburb of Tampere. After attending the Orivesi folk high school in 1957, he worked as an electrician and a labourer, then as a full-time writer from the early sixties. He partly regarded himself as a working-class writer, without party commitment. He also published three crime novels under the name Aki Rautala, received, among other honours, the Eino Leino Prize in 1985 and the Aleksis Kivi Prize in 1990, and was translated into ten languages.

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• NovelJuhannustanssitHannu Salama · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature