Author Tuula Korolainen has died at the age of 77.
Tuula Korolainen had a long career in literature. Tomi Kontio
Children’s and youth writer Tuula Korolainen died on Saturday, January 10 at the age of 77.
According to the Publiva publishing house’s release, Korolainen had been ill for a long time.
In 2005, he was awarded the Finlandia Junior prize for the work Snout towards the star together with the illustrator Marjo Nygård-Niemistön with. In addition to this, Korolainen has been awarded several other awards, such as the state award for information disclosure, the Tietopöllö award and the Vantaa cultural award.
In 2018, he received the Finnish Writers’ Association’s Tirlittan award for his entire production and work for Finnish literature.
Before his career as a writer, Korolainen worked, among other things, at Yleisradio as an editor for mother tongue and literature programs and as a spokesman for the Mother Tongue Teachers’ Union.
Korolainen worked for 20 years as editor-in-chief of the Onnimanni magazine published by the Children’s Book Institute.