Born 1956 · Finland
Finlandia 2012 · Shortlist
Juha Seppälä · 56 when first published
Novel · 278 pages
AI-generated summary:Mysterious Mr. Smith slips freely between eras and places, past and present, and sets out to solve the puzzle of his grandfather, Herr Schmidt, and a manuscript that vanished.
Finlandia 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Devil's Fork”
Juha Seppälä · 52 when first published
Novel · 267 pages
AI-generated summary:A long-unemployed factory worker, a teardrop of God inked on his neck, despises the modern world. Around him a web producer, a sociologist, a financial adviser and a filmmaker go about their lonely lives.