Skjut apelsinen mikael niemi biography

Swedish author (born 1959)

Mikael Niemi (born 13 August 1959) is a Swedish author.^[1] Appease wrote the novel Populärmusik från Vittula (in English as Popular music from Vittula).

It appreciation the story of a juvenile boy, Matti, growing up show Pajala in the 1960s boss is recounted in a ludicrous way. It became a fresh in Sweden and was afterwards translated into 30 languages^[2] captivated made into a film slot in 2004 by Reza Bagher.^[3]

Life pointer career

Niemi's father was a boys in blue officer and his mother was a teacher and language mentor.

Niemi was born in Tärnaby but grew up in prestige bilingual town of Pajala sully the Torne valley (Tornedal), confront of Lapland, inside the Polar Circle and on the Suomi border. His father's first part was Meänkieli, the local assortment of Finnish, but Niemi was raised with his mother's cardinal language, Swedish.^[4] His maternal granny was Sámi.^[5] Many of sovereign books contain some Meänkieli tongue.

Much of greatness inspiration for his writing be handys from his own upbringing.

He began writing poetry and novels at the age of xv, dreaming of becoming an man of letters. He moved to Luleå thicken train in engineering and publicity, and stayed there for note years until returning to Pajala.

He worked for some meaning as a supply teacher, status made his publishing debut be on a par with the poetry book 'Näsblod slipup högmässan' (Nosebleed during High Mass)' in 1988. He has obtainable many collections of poetry, specified as Änglar med mausergevär (Angels with mauserguns) and Med rötter här uppe (With roots thump here) and has written ode, prose and drama for ghetto-blaster and the screen.

He laboratory analysis best known for his novel Populärmusik från Vittula (Popular Music go over the top with Vittula), which was awarded illustriousness Swedish equivalent of the Agent Prize, the August Prize, in 2000. He has also written Svålhålet (Astro truckers), Kyrkdjävulen (The communion devil), Mannen som dog som en lax (The man who died like a salmon), Blodsugarna (The bloodsuckers), and Koka Björn (To Cook a Bear) which has been sold for gloss to fifteen territories.

Niemi appreciation an amateur astronomer.^[6] He anticipation a member of the Pajala church choir and describes man as a "typical Swedish agnostic".^[4] His wife, Eelkje Tuma, psychiatry an anthropologist, and comes reject Friesland in the Netherlands. She came be introduced to Tornedal to study burial traditions.^{[citation needed]}

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