Juha Vuorinen

Juha Tapio Vuorinen (born 31 March 1967) is a Finnish writer, columnist and radio personality. He is best known for his five-volume book series ''The Hangover Diaries'', particularly the first volume ''Totally Smashed!'' (in Finnish ''Juoppohullun päiväkirja''). Since 1983, Vuorinen had been working as a reporter for radio and television, a director, a screenwriter and a producer.

Career

Radio

At the age of 16, Vuorinen had his first radio show for the show ''Ocsid''. At the beginning of 2013, Vuorinen returned to the ''Aamulypsy'' show for Radio Suomipop. He also had the radio columns "Vuorissaarna" ("Vuorinen's Preaching") ja "Annos Andalusiasta" ("A Bit from Andalusia") for the same channel. Vuorinen became a panelist on the show '' Hyvät ja huonot uutiset'' on Nelonen in 2017.

Writing

Books

In spring of 1998, Vuorinen was asked to write a comedy piece for the keskus.net portal. He had just done a radio show about Tarno Manni whose play ''Mielipuolen päiväkirja'' ("Diary of a Maniac") gave him the idea for ''Juoppohullun päiväkirja'' (lit. "diary of a dipsomaniac"). At first, Vuorinen had a blog, but it was eventually made into a book at the request of his readers.

After the first printer refused to print "this kind of shit", Vuorinen started his own self-publishing at a copy shop in Kerava. In 2002, the publisher Like was interested in the book and released it as a paperback, releasing 36,000 copies until Vuorinen bought back the rights for his own publishing company Diktaattori. By the end of 2013, 200,000 copies of ''Totally Smashed!'' had been sold.

''Totally Smashed!'' has been sold in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (as ''Göttlich versumpft: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Saufkopfs''), Norway (as ''En finsk fyllefants dagbok''), Sweden (as ''Dilledagboken'') and Estonia (as ''Joomahullu päevaraamat''). Vuorinen currently has nine of his books published in Estonian. The fourth volume of ''The Hangover Diaries'', ''Vaippaihottuma'' (''Diaper Rash!''), became the most sold book in Estonia when it was released and is Vuorinen's fourth novel to be on Estonia's the top ten list. The book was translated into English in 2017.

Vuorinen's books have virtually always been at the top of the paperback lists, outselling the 200,000 copy limit for receiving a Kultapokkari ("Golden Paperback") award. Vuorinen sells his books through Diktaattori Oy. In all, he has sold over 2 million books in Finland.

''Totally Smashed!'' was made into a film which premiered on 28 December 2012. It premiered in Estonia in January 2013.

Once a year since 2009 Vuorinen has been releasing a charity paperback, with the proceeds going to, for example, homeless and women's shelters.

Columns

In May 2008, Vuorinen began writing columns for ''Metro Live'' online. In January 2011, he took his columns to ''Iltalehti''. He began writing columns for '' Apu'' in April 2016.

Personal life

Vuorinen lives in Spain and Finland with his wife. Vuorinen has four children.

References

External links

* (mostly in Finnish)

About Juha Vuorinen
(In English, from the official website)

About Diktaattori
(In English, from the official website)
*
Totally Smashed!
' on Amazon.com

Juha Vuorinen's blog page
for '' Apu'' (in Finnish)

Juha Vuorinen's blog page
for ''Iltalehti'' (in Finnish)

Diktaattori
on Facebook (in Finnish)

Juha Vuorinen
on Facebook (in English)

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1967 births
Finnish male novelists
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Finnish radio personalities
Finnish television personalities
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Living people
Finnish expatriates in Spain
20th-century Finnish novelists
21st-century Finnish novelists
20th-century Finnish male writers
21st-century male writers