Kari Aartoma

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Kari Aartoma (12 July 1958 – 24 June 2024) was a Finnish poet, writer, translator and columnist.

Aartoma was born on 12 July 1958.^[1] He lived in Turku, Finland.^[2] His first work, Pilvet eivät pidä mistään kiinni (Clouds Do Not Stick To Anything), was published in 1999 by Nihil Interit.^[3]

He was a member of the poetry group Hellät elätit.

His 2019 novel, Kahden Joen Kaupunki (A City of Two Rivers), deals with alcoholism. Aartoma, a self-described alcoholic, spent eight years writing the novel.^[4]

Aartoma died on 24 June 2024, at the age of 65.^[5]

• Clouds Do Not Stick To Anything (Pilvet eivät pidä mistään kiinni), Nihil Interit 1998
• Concrete Schubert (Betonischubert), Sammakko 2001
• Hetero, Sammakko 2005
• The City of Two Rivers (Kahden Joen Kaupunki)

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