Reetta Niemelä (b. 1973) is an award-winning poet and author of children’s books. Three of her works have been nominated for Finland’s most prestigious children’s book award, the Finlandia Junior Prize, and her books have won the Arvid Lydecken, Tietopöllö, and Kaarina Helakisa Awards and been translated into numerous languages.
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