author
Pasi Jääskeläinen
A Finnish novelist and short-story writer, he is known for slipping the strange into everyday life, blending realism with fantasy in ways that feel both playful and unsettling. His work has earned major Finnish fantasy awards and reached international readers through novels like The Rabbit Back Literature Society.
2 Audiobooks
Tirisen kosinta; Miljoona-arpa; Toppakahvia : Kolme yksinäytöksinen pilaa
by Pasi Jääskeläinen
Laivan kannella : 2-näytöksinen laulunäytelmä
by Pasi Jääskeläinen
About the author
Born in 1966 in Jyväskylä, Finland, he is a novelist, short-story writer, and teacher of Finnish language and literature. Finnish and international sources describe his fiction as realist storytelling infused with fantasy or magical-realist elements, and he has used the term "real fantasy" for that blend.
He first gained attention with short fiction and has won the Kuvastaja Fantasy Prize twice and the Atorox Award for Fantasy four times. Outside Finland, he is especially known for The Rabbit Back Literature Society, a novel that helped introduce his imaginative, literary style to a wider readership.
A lot of his work begins in ordinary Finnish settings and then lets something uncanny quietly enter the frame. That mix of the familiar and the impossible gives his stories a distinctive mood: intelligent, eerie, and full of wonder.