Juhani Karila

Juhani Karila is an award-winning author and journalist with a master's in communication theory. In 2010, Karila won the J. H. Erkko Award, and his first collection of short stories Gorilla, was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Prize. His second collection, The Death of the Apple Crocodile, is a series of connected stories about the collision of large and small worlds. Karila's debut novel Fishing for the Little Pike won the Kalevi Jäntti Prize, the Tähtifantasia Prize, and the Jarkko Laine Prize. He currently lives in Helsinki, Finland.