Arja Uusitalo

Arja Uusitalo (born 10 July 1951 in Helsinki) is a Finnish poet and journalist.

She moved to Sweden and attended the University of Stockholm, studying social anthropology, pedagogy, the Finnish language and economic history. She went to Poppius Journalist School to work as journalist. Uusitalo published poems in Swedish and Finnish magazines and worked in Swedish Radio. In 1992, a documentary film was made about her on Finnish television. Arja won a prize for her libretto which was composed by Oliver Kohlenberg and played in Kärsämäki in July 2000.[1]

Selected works
  • Medan nattens leoparder, 1984
  • Och klappar kaoset om ryggen, 1986
  • Puutarhallinen lohdutusta eksyneille, 1987
  • Syrjäytetyt minät, 1988
  • Pyysit miniatyyriä, 1992
  • Meren syli, 1992 (photographs by Tuija Lindström)
  • Turvapaikka, 2000 (opera libretto, composed by Oliver Kohlenberg)
  • Come-back, 2000
  • Tukholmalainen Blogikirja, 2006
  • Äkillinen oivallus, 2008
  • Tukholmalaisnovelleja, 2008

Vainajat nauravat kuorossa, 2010

gollark: I said NOT my old smartphone, and yes.
gollark: If you want to find out about the environment just include backdoors or something.
gollark: DEFINITELY NOT my old smartphone.
gollark: The osmarks.net secondary server/HNode™.
gollark: I require either source code or an aarch64 musl binary.

References
  1. Liukkonen, Petri. "Arja Uusitalo". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 7 January 2010.


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