Simo Puupponen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish writer and journalist
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Place of Birth: Kuopio, Eastern Finland Province, Finland
About Simo Puupponen
- Simo Tapio Puupponen (23 October 1915 – 11 October 1967), better known by the pen name Aapeli, was a Finnish writer and novelist.
- Aapeli was born in Kuopio, and became a journalist for the Pohjois-Savo and Savon Sanomat newspapers.
- In 1959 Aapeli won the Eino Leino Prize and the State literature prize.
- He died, aged 51, in Helsinki.
- His novels were turned into films and plays after his death in the 1970s.
- In 1977 his historical novels of the Aika hyvä ihmiseksi series were made into a feature film.
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