Timo K. Mukka
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Timo Kustaa Mukka (1944 - 1973) was a Finnish author who wrote about the lives of people in Lapland.
Timo K. Mukka was born on 17 December 1944 in Bollnäs, Sweden and died less than twenty-nine years later, on 27 March 1973 in Rovaniemi, capital of the Lapland region of Finland. During his short life Mukka studied at the Arts Academy in Helsinki and wrote nine novels, written in a lyrical prose style, about the harsh conditions in Lapland - the region of his childhood and of most of his adult life. His nine books were published in the six years between 1964 and 1970. There was in 1973 a sensational story on Mukka in Finnish magazine Hymy which is believed to have contributed to his early demise.
In the early 1960s there sprang a movement in Finnish literature entitled "spontaneous-confessional fiction". It was heavily influenced by the writings of Henry Miller and its two most prominent represantatives were the enfants terribles of modern Finnish literature - the talented poet and translator Pentti Saarikoski (1937 - 1983) and the author Hannu Salama (born 1936). Among the writers belonging to this movement Mukka is considered the most original as well as the most consistent in his writing.
Trivia: - Ville Valo of Finnish goth-metal band HIM claimed in Kerrang!1088 that Timo Mukka was a great influence to him and he has recently had a tattoo of the poet.
