Marko Hautala

Marko Hautala’s unique blend of psychological horror and realism has attracted readers of all genres, earning him a reputation as the Finnish Stephen King. His first novel The Self-Illuminated Ones (Itsevalaisevat, 2008) received the Tiiliskivi Prize, and in 2010 Hautala received the Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize for Young Authors for Shrouds (Käärinliinat, 2009). He was also nominated for the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2013 for Seeing Eyes (Unikoira, 2012).

Hautala's literary sensibility was formed at an early age by horror novels and later on by his experiences working as a nurse at a mental institute in the early 1990's. The Black Tongue (Kuokkamummo, 2015) is Hautala's first novel to appear in English.

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