Hannu Väisänen

Hannu Väisänen (born 1951) is a graphic artist, painter and writer from Finland. He now lives in France, and his work has been shown in numerous European countries.

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• Hannu v is nen creation under a curse useful or useless how to demystify a creative process
• Hannu v is nen manifesti
• References

As an artist he is known for is aesthetic eye.

Väisänen has written a series of partially autobiographical novels, describing the young boy Antero growing up in a garrison area in a small town in Northern Finland, leaving his home, gradually opening himself up to the world, and becoming an artist.

Vaisanen received the Finlandia Prize for literature in 2007 for the second novel in the series, Other Shoes. He also won the State Prize for Visual arts in 2008 and the State Price for literature in 2015.