Hannu Mäkelä
Hannu Mäkelä (born 18 August 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is an author of more than 100 books in Finnish: novels, collections of short stories, edited anthologies and children's books. Known for his books for children in many countries around the world, especially the Herra Huu (Mr Boo) series. • Illustration — Hannu Mäkelä in 2009
Also recorded as Hannu Makela
Hannu Mäkelä
Soppakanuuna · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1943. · Helsinki.
- Nationality
- Finland.
- Occupation
- poet, writer and playwright.
- Fields
- fairy tale.
- Honours
- Eino Leino Prize, Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, Finlandia Award, Anni Swan Medal, Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland and Cross of Merit of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
- Languages
- Finnish.
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Hannu Mäkelä. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q907963
In this article
Career
Career
Mäkelä writes for both adults and children. The Herra Huu series for children is fantasy about a wizard. Mäkelä's children's books have been published in Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and are especially popular in Russia. His success in Russia has been explained as a result of his friendship with the writer Eduard Uspensky.
Personal life
Personal life
Mäkelä has been married five times. His first marriage was to the children's writer Maikki Harjanne; they had one son. His fourth wife, Svetlana Aksjonova, whom he married in 2011, died in 2017. He married again in 2020.
Novels
Novels
• Traveling all the time (1965)
Finnish writer Hannu Mäkelä at Turku Book Fair in 2013.
Anneli Salo
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1943
Hannu Mäkelä born at Helsinki.
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Hannu Mäkelä: Finland Author, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2010
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2010
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q907963: Hannu Mäkelä
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
Awards
• The State Literature Prize, Kirjallisuuden valtionpalkinto • The Eino Leino Prize, 1982 • The Finlandia Prize, 1995 • Commander, Order of the Lion of Finland
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Hannu Mäkelä (writer), revision 1333907561 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
scholarly publication
Hannu Mäkelä: Finland Author, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2010Crossref registry
Institutional witnessreference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q907963: Hannu MäkeläWikimedia Foundation
Secondary witness
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
The authorities additionally record the heading Hannu Makela. Mäkelä received Eino Leino Prize, Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, Finlandia Award, Anni Swan Medal, Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland and Cross of Merit of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Hanns HörbigerAuthor
- Hanns JohstAuthor
- Hanns KrälyAuthor
- Hanns von GumppenbergAuthor
- Hannu RajaniemiAuthor
- Hannu SalamaAuthor
- Hanny MichaelisAuthor
- Hanoch LevinAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Hannu Mäkelä?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.