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Jari Tervo
Jari Tervo at the Helsinki Book Fair 2008.
Born	February 2, 1959 (1959-02-02) (age 50) Rovaniemi, Finland
Occupation	Novelist
Genres	Prose, Poetry

Jari Tervo (born February 2, 1959) is a well-known Finnish author of prose. He is a major name in current Finnish literature.

He writes traditional plot-driven prose, 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.

As another of the team captains he is also a familiar face from Finnish TV's version of Have I Got News For You, Uutisvuoto.

Bibliography

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 päiväkirja, 1999)
• Kallellaan (2000)
• Suomemme heimo (2001)
• Rautapää (2002)
• The Mole (Myyrä, 2004)
• Ohrana (2006)
• Troikka (2008)
• Koljatti (2009)

References

• Introduction