Author Antti Tuuri's mother died - a family history influences migration describing novels

Antti Tuuri Elizabeth-mother's family went once to America. Antti Tuuri has received his family's stages influences the novel in their. JUKKA LEHTINEN

Author Antti Tuuri , 74, mother, Elizabeth Luck is dead.

my Mother died on independence day in Tampere shed in the home. I was here to see her one last time two days before he died, when he was already almost unconscious, the evening paper the goal by Antti Tuuri says.

Elizabeth Luck died a 96-year-old.

my Mother was a housewife. We had three sons, which he treated and raised.

– Long life fit a wide range of. He was for a short time nineteen years old olonets in the prison camp catering services as well. The first day he saw how the guard shoot a Russian prisoner. Yes that leaves a trace of the young girl. Easy steps in his life was later, Luck said.

Mother is not directly affected by Antti Tuuri written in the groove, but his family found artistically talented and handy people.

– the novel of person you are novel to the persons, but as well as my mother that my father's family left in time to America like many of pohjalais family. There have been topics and impressions of the great migration across the Atlantic. My mother's father is even buried in the Yellowknife cemetery. It is in northwest territories in Canada, Lucky told.

Antti Luck known especially my Mother's family series includes books, which explain the united states migrants in the Finnish report. Also in Ostrobothnia, a-series loosely based on the luck of your family. The series from the first book, Ostrobothnia, Lucky won the Nordic council's literature prize as well as the Aleksis kivi prize. His work the Plain called Luck received the Finlandia prize in 1997.

Several Luck works is also filmatisoi.

the novel in addition to the luck of the extensive production also includes radio plays and film scripts, opera librettos, biographies and history.

– This month, the Bay city theatre will premiere Ikitie-play, which is based on the same name for my novel. I also wrote a new novel next autumn. Work is continuing, I am still a young man, Lucky sum nykykuulumiset.

Sunday's Helsingin sanomat was published on Elizabeth luck's obituary.