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Seppo Sakari Telenius (born 16 February 1954, in Porvoo

Porvoo

Porvoo is a city and a municipality situated on the southern coast of Finland approximately east of Helsinki. Porvoo is one of the six medieval towns in Finland, first mentioned as a city in texts from 14th century...

, Finland

Finland

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) is a Finnish

Finland

writer and historian who lives in Harjavalta

Harjavalta

Harjavalta is a town and municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakunta region. The town has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....

. He studied political history

Political history

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and social history

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at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

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(Master of Social Sciences 1981, Licentiate in Social Sciences 1988). His varied body of works includes novels, short stories, poems, local history books as well as essays. In many writings Seppo Telenius deals with topics related to human beings' relationship with themselves and the world, borders between reality and illusion, and the problem of loving. He has admired persons like Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...

, James P. Cannon

James P. Cannon

James Patrick "Jim" Cannon was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party.Born on February 11, 1890 in Rosedale, Kansas, he joined the Socialist Party of America in 1908 and the Industrial Workers of the World in 1911...

and Juliet Mitchell

Juliet Mitchell

Juliet Mitchell is a British Psychoanalyst and socialist feminist, who was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at Cambridge University. In 2010, she's appointed to be the Director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at...

.

In December 2003 Seppo Telenius attended a course in astronomy

Astronomy

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at Helsinki University under the name of "The Universe Now", receiving his diploma with the note "very good". Galaxies

Galaxy

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and field armies

Army

An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...

symbolize important ideas, events, or themes in his novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s and short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

. Seppo Telenius' most important work has been the novel Auringolla ratsastajat (Riders on the Sun). Jouni Inkala

Jouni Inkala

Jouni Mikael Inkala was born on 15 April 1966, in Kemi, Finland. Until the year 2005 he had published seven collections of poems of which the latest were Kirjoittamaton and Sarveisaikoja...

has written to Seppo Telenius:

"...I found irony and the further I found the further I went towards the end of the manuscript [Auringolla ratsastajat] also a great deal of grotesque. In fact, you seem to have control over quite a big arsenal of different sorts of parody and satire that enrich your story with just the right spices. You do have control over cultural historical code, terms and dealings in such an amount that in between also my own knowledge of the field was put to a tough test.

As especially delicate, I found those many parts in which you freely mix the conventions and events of myth and so-called reality. Many details I first regarded as superficial then suddenly became depth in a dazzling way. Around the story seemed to be born an almost terrifying amount of time-spatial dimension..."

Works

Naisten vapautusliike Yhdysvalloissa vuosina 1967-1975. Licentiate thesis/theses. University of Helsinki, 1988. SUBJECT: The women's liberation movement in the United States of America during the years 1967-1975.
Auringolla ratsastajat (Riders on the Sun), a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

. Goddess Artemis Ltd., 1995 and 1996.
Viasvesi. Goddess Artemis Ltd., 1998. SUBJECT: Chronicle of Viasvesi (which has been since 1967 a part of Pori
Pori
Pori is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäenjoki river, which is the largest in Finland. Pori is the most important town in the Satakunta region....

).
Korseletti (Corselette), a compilation of poetry and short stories
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

. Goddess Artemis Ltd., 2000.
Kartanokulttuurin jäänteillä. Goddess Artemis Ltd., 2001.
Kartano "Lotinanpellosta" esikaupunkialueeksi. [Pori]: Kartanon pienkiinteistönomistajat, 2003. SUBJECT: Chronicle of Kartano [which has been since 1941 a part of Pori).
Hyvelä: Kalavesistä viljapeltoihin. [Pori]: Hyvelän kiinteistöyhdistys, [2005]. SUBJECT: History of Hyvelä (which has been since 1941 a part of Pori).
Athena-Artemis: Goddesses Artemis and Athene (Athena), "Auringolla ratsastajat (Riders on the Sun), and "Valtiatar Artemis" (Mistress Artemis). [Helsinki]: Kirja kerrallaan, 2005 and 2006.
Poetry and other texts. [Helsinki]: Kirja kerrallaan, 2005 and 2007.
Katinkurun ampumakeskus ja sen lähiympäristö: history of Katinkuru, Pinomäki, Honkaluoto etc. [Helsinki]: Kirja kerrallaan, 2008.
Omakotien asialla: Porin Kiinteistönomistajain Keskusjärjestö 60 vuotta. Kehitys 2009.

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