{"id":1173,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/keranen\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:08:01","slug":"keranen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/keranen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Ker\u00e4nen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChildren\u2019s stories<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\"Mika<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Mika Arto Juhani Ker\u00e4nen (b. 24. XI 1973) is an Estonian children\u2019s author of Finnish origin, and a patriot of the Tartu region, who has become known for his series of crime stories addressed to children, in which the adventures are set in the Supilinn area of Tartu.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Helsinki, he grew up in Ilomantsi in the most easterly corner of Karelian Finland. He graduated from Kitee Secondary School in 1992. His studies at Ilomantsi Horticultural College and in the forestry department of the Estonian Agricultural University were not completed. In 1999 he graduated in Estonian as a foreign language from the University of Tartu. Thereafter he worked as a researcher at the Institute for the Languages of Finland and as an Estonian-Finnish interpreter for translation agencies. From 2002 to 2006 he was the director of the Estonian Institute in Finland. Since 2006 he has lived and worked in Tartu, Estonia. He has worked as a consultant in the office of foreign relations at the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, and at the University of Tartu as a Finnish language instructor. He is one of the founders of the Tartu Young Authors\u2019 Association. In 2010 he won the Literature Endowment Annual Award. His outside passion is football.<\/p>\n

Under the pseudonym Mihkel Kera, Ker\u00e4nen published the poetry collection T\u00e4helepanekuid noorusaastatest<\/em> (\u2018Observations from Youth\u2019, 2003). He has written a series of crime books for children, in the course of whose tense and exciting events, crimes are solved inventively by under-age master detectives. The stories introduce the interesting characters of Supilinn, a strange part of Tartu with its special atmosphere. In his debut novel Varastatud oran\u017e jalgratas<\/em> (\u2018The Stolen Orange Bicycle\u2019, 2008), the young detectives are on the track of a gang of bicycle thieves; in the story Peidetud h\u00f5bedane aardelaegas<\/em> (\u2018The Hidden Silver Treasure Box\u2019, 2009) the group of friends are after a hoard buried during the war in the town\u2019s botanical gardens. In the following books, Vana roosa maja<\/em> (\u2018The Old Pink House\u2019, 2010), Salap\u00e4rane lillen\u00e4ppaja<\/em> (\u2018The Secret Flower-snatcher\u2019, 2011), Professor Must<\/em> (\u2018Professor Black\u2019, 2013), Kuldne Lurich<\/em> (\u2018Golden Lurich\u2019, 2014), K\u00fcttepuuvargad<\/em> (\u2018The Firewood Thieves\u2019, 2015), J\u00f5mmu<\/em> (2016) and Fantoomrattur<\/em> (\u2018The Phantom Cyclist\u2019, 2017), the secret society of Supilinn children continues its adventures. Armando<\/em> (2012), written for younger school-age children, tells of the difficulties of adaptation of a schoolboy who moves from Argentina to Estonia, and about tolerance towards other nationalities.<\/p>\n

Based on Ker\u00e4nen\u2019s children\u2019s books, an adventure film for family viewing, Supilinna salaselts<\/em> (\u2018The Supilinn Secret Society\u2019) has been made as a Finnish-Estonian collaboration (2015, director Margus Paju). The Estonian Drama Theatre has staged productions for children of \u2018The Stolen Orange Bicycle\u2019 (2010), \u2018The Old Pink House\u2019 (2012) and \u2018Golden Lurich\u2019 (2014; all directed by Ingomar Vihmar). Life in Supilinn has also been depicted in the popular so-called \u2018My\u2019-series of travelogues by the publishing house Petrone Print: Minu Supilinn<\/em> (\u2018My Supilinn\u2019, 2012), which describes things, places and people encountered by the author there. He has written an adventure story for young people in Finnish, Maaliviivalla<\/em> (\u2018On the Goal Line\u2019, 2014; in Estonian V\u00e4ravajoonel<\/em>, 2014). His works have been translated into Finnish, Russian and Latvian. He himself has translated works by Mehis Heinsaar, Andrus Kivir\u00e4hk, Hasso Krull, Veiko M\u00e4rka and Wimberg into Finnish.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. O. (Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Children\u2019s and young adult books<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Varastatud oran\u017e jalgratas<\/strong>. Tallinn: Jutulind, 2008, 87 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2010.]<\/span>
Peidetud h\u00f5bedane aardelaegas<\/strong>. Tallinn: Jutulind, 2009, 115 lk.<\/span>
Vana roosa maja<\/strong>. Tallinn: Jutulind, 2010, 92 lk.<\/span>
Salap\u00e4rane lillen\u00e4ppaja<\/strong>. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2011, 141 lk.<\/span>
Armando<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tallinna Keskraamatukogu, 2012, 44 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2015, 80 lk.]<\/span>
Professor Must<\/strong>. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2013, 140 lk.<\/span>
Kuldne Lurich<\/strong>. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2014, 146 lk.<\/span>
K\u00fcttepuuvargad<\/strong>. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2015, 118 lk.<\/span>
J\u00f5mmu<\/strong>. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2016, 157 lk.<\/span>
Fantoomrattur<\/strong>. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2017, 157 lk.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoems<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Mihkel Kera, T\u00e4helepanekuid noorusaastatest<\/strong>. Helsinki: Kirja Kerrallaan, 2003, 124 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A memoir \/ travelogue<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Minu Supilinn: t\u00f5elise elu mekk<\/strong>. Tartu: Petrone Print, 2012, 196 lk.<\/span><\/p>\n

Books in Finnish<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Novels<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Maaliviivalla<\/strong>. Helsinki: WSOY, 2014, 207 lk. [Young adult novel.]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoems<\/em><\/strong>
Indrek Koff, Mika Ker\u00e4nen, Oi Suomi on. Er\u00e4\u00e4nlainen selviytymistarina<\/strong>. Vironkielisest\u00e4 alkuper\u00e4isteoksesta [\u2026] suomen oloihin koulinut Mika Ker\u00e4nen; kannen suunnittelu ja taitto: Piia Ruber, valokuvat: Mika Ker\u00e4nen. Tartu: Kerop\u00e4\u00e4, 2018, 69 lk. [Adaptation of Indrek Koff\u2019s \u2019Eestluse eluj\u00f5ust: h\u00fcsteeriline traktaat\u2019.]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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