Heikki Palmu

Heikki Palmu (b. 1946) is a Finnish writer who lives in Turku. He has published five novels, and essays, poems, plays for radio, columns and pamphlets, and most recently the collection of essays entitled Paavali, risti ja riita (St Paul, the cross and conflict, 1992). He received the Eino Leino Prize in 1970 for his work Harmaa päiväkirja. Kuvia Suomen puolustuslaitoksesta (Grey diary. Pictures of the Finnish defence establishment, 1969). Palmu has worked as subeditor of the Ydin magazine and editor-in-chief of Etsijä and as a permanent writer and columnist to various newspapers.

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