Simo Puupponen

Puupponen Simo ( born October 23, 1915 in Kuopio, † October 11, 1967 in Helsinki), better known by the pseudonym Aapeli, was a Finnish journalist and writer.

He was in the 1940s, initially known with columns for the Eastern Finland Regional Savon Sanomat, before in 1952 he settled as a freelance writer in Helsinki. Especially in the 1950s, he was with humorous novels about the Finnish Small Town - known nationwide - especially his hometown of Kuopio. 1959 two of the most important Finnish literary prizes were awarded to him, the State Literary Award and the Eino Leino - Prize.

Works

• Onnen pipanoita: eli viisikymmentä juttua Elämän aurinkoiselta puolelta (1947 )
• Siunattu hulluus (1948 )
• Pajupilli: pakinoita (1950 )
• Mutahäntä yes muita (1953 )
• Koko Kaupungin Vinski (1954 ), German translation This invisibility powder
• Meidän herramme muurahaisia ​​: kavalkadi pienestä kaupungista (1954 )
• Sipuleita: lapsellisia juttuja (1956 )
• Vinski yes Vinsentti: koko Kaupungin Vinskin uusia seikkailuja (1956 )
• Onnipussi eli 110 pikkujuttua sieltä täältä ynnä kertomus Siunattu hulluus (1957 )
• Pikku Pietarin piha (1958), German translation, the courtyard of a small Peter ( 1961)
• Onco koira kotona? Pakinoita (1960)
• Alvari, kananvahti (1961 )
• Puuhevonen pakkasessa: familiäärejä kertomuksia triviaaleista aiheista (1962 )
• Timonen yes muita tuttavia (1963 )
• Pekko, runoilijan poika (1965 )
• Kissa kissa, kissa. Pakinoita (1967 )