Juri Nummelin (jurnum@utu.fi)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:17:51 +0300 (EET DST)
I've been bad.
I must've read the welcome letter poorly, since I didn't
introduce myself
(I read it again just now due to the new persons on the
list). I've been opening my mouth here where ever possible
and nobody knew who or what this guy was. Sorry.
So: I'm Juri Nummelin, 27 years old Finnish Master of Arts (I
guess that is the equivalent for my title in the GB and the
US), a father of a four month girl, and a long time devotee
of hardboiled literature. My love began with Chandler and
Macdonald (I read a youngster novel in which the protagonist
tried to identify with Marlowe and Archer - a Finnish novel!
- and then I started to read Chandler and stuff). I love
crime movies as well, especially some tough and mean films
from the fifties, like 'The Big Combo' or 'Kiss Me
Deadly'.
My hobby with these writers has gone so far that I've began
to write a critical bibliography about the American
hardboiled and pulp writers that have been translated into
Finnish as paperbacks or in pulp magazines (they appeared
here as well as in the US). I'm making it a book, but haven't
yet found a publisher. The Finnish Detective Book Club has
published articles from the bibliography in its magazine,
Body Culture. I've written about W.T. Ballard, Bill
Ballinger, Gil Brewer, Carroll John Daly, Norman A. Daniels
and Frederick C. Davis. The articles about Richard Deming,
Frank Gruber and David Goodis haven't yet appeared.
What else is there? In Finland we don't get much of the new
writers of the genre, but I've found James Ellroy and Joe R.
Lansdale very refreshing authors.
Thanks for bearing with me - I apologize once more for my bad
behaviour! I'm kind of new with this kind of lists.
Juri jurnum@utu.fi
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