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Place of Birth: Asikkala, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Jouko Halmekoski
- Jouko Antero Halmekoski (born 1937, in Asikkala) is a Finnish writer who lives in Kalkkinen, a village near by Asikkala's municipality with his wife Leena Halmekoski.
- Jouko worked most of his life as a technical director in Asko furniture company.
- Halmekoski started his writing career rather late in life, at the age of 69.
- Jouko has also become known by a family chapel, "Temple of Peace", he built near his childhood birthplace.
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