October Harvest

“He was born an Italian citizen in the heart of the capital of Finland, his father being half Italian, the rest of the family belonging to the Swedish minority of Finland, with many artists on his mother’s side, who was a sculptress. After three years in Argentine, Buenos Aires, where his father worked in shipping for Finland, the family moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, where the author has lived since. He decided to become an author at the age of 9 but made music his main livelihood, working 15 years as a piano teacher and 6 years as a church organist, keeping still busy today in choirs. Because of some damage in his right hand he had to cease working professionally with music and started traveling instead. He tried to get published in Sweden already as a youth, but there was never any Swedish publisher who wanted to touch him even with a pair of tongs. Nevertheless he always continued writing, also in English. He sticks to his family roots both in Finland and Italy, going there regularly every year, but keeps up his work in Sweden also as editor and translator mainly by networking.”