Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (b. 1966) is a Finnish author and a teacher of literature.

In the early 1970’s, when he was five, Jääskeläinen lived in a block of flats by the old cemetery of Jyväskylä (a city in Central Finland) and believed in vampires. In the early 1980’s, he still dreamed of vampires and fell in love with Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut’s Jules et Jim. Ten years later Pasi wrote his first set of short stories. He won a national writing competition of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories four times and then decided to become a writer.  

In Jääskeläinen’s works, the world is thrown out of place and new dimensions are revealed beneath the familiar reality, somewhat in the spirit of the early works of Mihail Bulgakov, Peter Høeg and Stephen King. The author has won numerous awards, including two Kuvastaja Awards in 2007 and 2011, given by the Finnish Tolkien Society for the best fantasy book of the year. His works have been translated into 15 languages. 

 

Photo: © Sami Mäkinen

 

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