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Kalle Haapakoski
1867–1917
A Finnish journalist-novelist who helped shape the early Finnish-American press, he wrote under the pen name Kalle Koski and brought both social observation and feeling to his fiction. His best-known work, Parantumassa, reflects the thoughtful, realistic tone that runs through his writing.
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Parantumassa
by Kalle Haapakoski
About the author
Born in 1867, he was a Finnish writer and journalist better known in print as Kalle Koski. His poems and stories began appearing while he was still in school, and he later worked for several newspapers in Finland before moving to the United States in 1893.
In America, he became one of the early figures in the Finnish-language press. Sources connect him especially with the newspaper Amerikan Uutiset in Calumet, Michigan, and note that he also worked on other Finnish-American papers, publishing not only journalism but also his own poems and stories.
His known books include Parantumassa and Liikalapsi. Haapakoski died in Calumet, Michigan, in 1917, leaving behind a body of work that links Finnish literary life with the experience of Finnish immigrants in North America.