Pasi Jääskeläinen

A Finnish novelist and short-story writer born in 1966, he is especially known for fiction that mixes realism with fantasy, often in a style described as magical realism. In Finland, he has also worked as a teacher of Finnish language and literature.

His first short-story collection appeared in 2000, and his first novel followed in 2006. Over the years, his books and stories have won the Kuvastaja Fantasy Prize and the Atorox Award multiple times, and his work has been published internationally, helping bring his distinctive, offbeat imagination to a wider audience.

Readers often come to his books for their unusual balance of warmth, wit, and eerie possibility. Whether he is writing about secret literary circles or everyday lives slipping into the surreal, his fiction tends to make the familiar feel wonderfully unstable.