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Journalist and an author. Karila won the J. H. Erkko Award in 2010 with a!text that the jury called “phew!” prose. Gorilla (2013), Karila’s first collection of short stories, won "an!enthusiastic" reception and second place in the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize competiton. His second collection, The Death of the Apple Crocodile (2016), introduces more absurd stories. Karila’s first novel Fishing for the Little Pike (2019) was awarded the Kalevi Jäntti Prize, Tähti fantasia Prize, and the Lapland Literature Prize. It was also nominated for the Kuvastaja Award, the Prix Michelin in France, the Internationaler Literaturpreis in Germany, and the Boy-Zelenski Award in Poland.Poland.

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