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Jarkko Tontti

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Jarkko Tontti is a writer, living in Helsinki, Finland

Tontti studied law, philosophy and literature at the universities of Helsinki, Edinburgh, Berlin and Brussels. Doctor of Laws 2002. He has published collections of poems, novels and essays. His first poetry collection Vuosikirja (Book of Years, 2006) won the Kalevi Jäntti literature prize for young authors.

His poems have been translated into twenty languages, English, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Estonian, German, Greek, Slovenian, Polish, Latin, Czech, Romanian, Marathi, Croatian, Hebrew and Portuguese.

Tel: +358400784313
E-mail: jarkkotontti@jarkkotontti.net

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Vuosikirja (Book of Years, poems, 2006)

Luokkakokous (Class reunion, novel, 2007)

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Sodomasta pohjoiseen (Leo Asko & Daniel Janovsky, #2)

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