Tuomas Nevanlinna (b. 1960) is a Finnish essayist, translator, columnist of the Helsingin Sanomat's weekly supplement and director of Kriittinen korkeakoulu., an independent institute for philosophy and arts. He has written a novel with Kari Kontio and translated into Finnish books by Lewis Carroll, Wendy Cope, Roald Dahl, Derek Walcott, and others. His collection of essays Hyväkuntoisena taivaaseen (Shipshape to heaven) came out in 1999. In collaboration with Jukka Relander he edited a collection of essays, Espoo - totuus Suomesta (Espoo - the truth about Finland, 2000), which is about Espoo, the neighbouring city of Helsinki, as the secret model for globalisation.

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