Heikki Turunen

Heikki Anton Turunen (born 9 December 1945 in Pielisjärvi, North Karelia, Finland) is a Finnish author who lives in Joensuu.

He grew up with his six sisters in a farming family. In 1964 he got a job as a journalist at Karjalan Maa newspaper in Joensuu. He kept this job until 1974, in the last year, as editor.

Turunen's writing deals with Finland in the time in which he grew up, before urbanisation, industrialisation, and tenant farmers. He often describes characters who are a little unusual. Many of his books have been filmed.