| Kati Hiekkapelto | |
| Birth Date: | 8 September 1970 |
| Birth Place: | Oulu, Finland |
| Language: | Finnish |
| Nationality: | Finnish |
| Genre: | Crime, fiction, Nordic Noir[1] [2] |
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| Website: | www.katihiekkapelto.com |
Kati Hiekkapelto (born 8 September 1970 in Oulu, Finland) is a Finnish novelist, performance artist and punk singer.
Following her studies in special education, Hiekkapelto worked as a special-needs teacher for a time in Serbia among its minority Hungarian population.
In 2013, Hiekkapelto published her first novel, Kolibri (Hummingbird). Its protagonist, a police detective, Anna Fekete, is an immigrant to Finland from the erstwhile Yugoslavia. The book was a critical as well as popular success, and has been translated into several languages, including English and German.
A sequel Suojattomat (The Defenceless) came out in 2015. It won the Finnish prize Vuoden johtolanka for crime fiction.[3]
The third book in the series, Tumma (The Exiled) was published in 2016.
Hiekkapelto lives on Hailuoto, an island in northern Finland.[4]
Hiekkapelto performs in a punk band Parrakas nainen (The Bearded Woman).[5]