Simo Tapio Puupponen (23 October 1915 – 11 October 1967), better known by the pen name Aapeli, was a Finnish writer and novelist. Aapeli was born in

Kuopio Kuopio ( , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Savo. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Kuopio is approximately , while the Kuopio sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mos ...

, and became a journalist for the ''Pohjois-Savo'' and ''

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'' newspapers. In 1959 Aapeli won the

Eino Leino Prize The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize awarded to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabb ...

and the State literature prize. He died, aged 51, in

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. His novels were turned into films and plays after his death in the 1970s. In 1977 his historical novels of the ''Aika hyvä ihmiseksi'' series were made into a

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Biography in Biografiakeskus

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* 1915 births 1967 deaths People from Kuopio People from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Writers from North Savo Recipients of the Eino Leino Prize 20th-century Finnish novelists {{finland-writer-stub