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Simo Tapio Puupponen (23 October 1915 – 11 October 1967), better known by the pen name Aapeli, was a Finnish journalist and novelist.
Aapeli was born in Kuopio, and became a journalist for the Pohjois-Savo and Savon Sanomat newspapers. In 1959, Aapeli won the Eino Leino Prize and the State literature prize.[clarification needed]
He died, aged 51, in Helsinki. His novels were turned into films and plays in the 1970s. In 1977, his historical novels of the Aika hyvä ihmiseksi series were made into a feature film, People Not as Bad as They Seem.
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