Jari Tervo is a well-known Finnish

Finland

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Prose

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. He is a major name in current Finnish literature

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He writes traditional plot-driven prose

Prose

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, sometimes more humoristic (Poliisin poika), sometimes more like a detective story (Myyrä). Often he includes autobiographical elements. For example, Kallellaan is a diary, and Minun sukuni tarina has a protagonist which is, in all but de jure, the author himself.
Despite the good reputation he has gained in Finland his novels have not yet been translated into English

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As another of the team captains he is also a familiar face from Finnish TV's

YLE TV1

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 version of Have I Got News For You

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Uutisvuoto

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Novels

• The Court of the North (Pohjan hovi, 1992)
• Policeman's Son (Poliisin poika, 1993)
• Numbered Among Your Saints (Pyhiesi yhteyteen, 1995)
• Windswept Expanse (Tuulikaappimaa, 1997)
• My Family Chronicle (Minun sukuni tarina, 1999)
• Kallellaan (2000)
• Suomemme heimo (2001)
• Rautapää (2002)
• The Mole (Myyrä, 2004)
• Ohrana (2006)
• Troikka (2008)
• Koljatti (2009)
• Layla (2011)

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