Life Writing Genres on the Move: The Year in Finland

Loiri is seen as a kind of national treasure, particularly in the field of Finnish comedy of the 1970s and 1980s; as a singer, he is the fifth best-selling male solo artist in Finland. Since the 1960s, the Finnish public has avidly followed Loiri's career, his alcoholism, illnesses, and the other ups and downs of his life. Media published fragments of the book's open and explicit sex scenes, in which Loiri recalls in detail sexual acts with his partners. The autobiographical work of Finnish musician Kauko Röyhkä (whose real name is Jukka-Pekka Välimaa) depicts his childhood and youth in Northern Finland as a son of a single mother, his slowly growing yearning to become an artist, a guitar player, and singer, and his aspirations to stardom. In these books (the previous ones are titled Ottos liv and Stilla dagar i Mejlans), Andersson depicts the life of his alter ego, old man called Otto, who plays jazz, is a former MP, a writer, and who observes his surroundings, political life, and culture.