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Place of Birth: Porvoo, Uusimaa Province, Finland
About Seppo Telenius
- Seppo Sakari Telenius (born 16 February 1954, in Porvoo, Finland) is a Finnish writer and historian who lives in Harjavalta.
- He studied political history and social history at the University of Helsinki (Master of Social Sciences 1981, Licentiate in Social Sciences 1988).
- His varied body of works includes novels, short stories, poems, local history books as well as essays.
- In many writings Seppo Telenius deals with topics related to human beings' relationship with themselves and the world, borders between reality and illusion, and the problem of loving.
- He has admired persons like Mary Magdalene, James P.
- Cannon and Juliet Mitchell. In December 2003 Seppo Telenius attended a course in astronomy at Helsinki University under the name of "The Universe Now", receiving his diploma with the note "very good".
- Galaxies and field armies symbolize important ideas, events, or themes in his novels and short stories.
- Seppo Telenius' most important work has been the novel Auringolla ratsastajat (Riders on the Sun).
- Jouni Inkala has written to Seppo Telenius: "...I found irony and the further I found the further I went towards the end of the manuscript [Auringolla ratsastajat] also a great deal of grotesque.
- In fact, you seem to have control over quite a big arsenal of different sorts of parody and satire that enrich your story with just the right spices.
- You do have control over cultural historical code, terms and dealings in such an amount that in between also my own knowledge of the field was put to a tough test. As especially delicate, I found those many parts in which you freely mix the conventions and events of myth and so-called reality.
- Many details I first regarded as superficial then suddenly became depth in a dazzling way.
- Around the story seemed to be born an almost terrifying amount of time-spatial dimension..."
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