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Kjell Westö
Helsinki, Finland
Kjell Anders Westö, born August 6, 1961, in Helsinki, is a Finnish-Swedish author. He made his debut as a poet in 1986 but quickly switched to writing short stories and eventually…
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Kjell Anders Westö, born August 6, 1961, in Helsinki, is a Finnish-Swedish author. He made his debut as a poet in 1986 but quickly switched to writing short stories and eventually to novels. He made his breakthrough with the novel Drakarna över Helsingfors (1996), which together with Vådan av att vara Skrake (2000), Där vi en gång gått (2006) and Gå inte ensam ut i natten (2009) form a suite of stand-alone novels about Helsinki. Westö received the Finlandia Prize in 2006 for Där vi en gång gått and in 2014 he was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hägring 38.
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2021
Yellow Sulphur Sky
Movie Novel
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2021
Succékväll med Janne Grönroos
TV show Self - Guest artist
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2011
Where Once We Walked
TV show Novel
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2011
Where Once We Walked
Movie Novel
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2004
Miehen sydän
Movie Writer
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2001
Kites Over Helsinki
Movie Novel
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Hägring 38
Movie Novel
