Nalle Valtiala


Kaarle-Juhani Bertel "Nalle" Valtiala is a Finland Swedish writer.
Valtiala graduated from in 1955 and became a candidate of philosophy at the University of Helsinki in 1962. He also studied in the US in 1956–1957 and 1963–1964. He worked as a teacher of Swedish and English at Grankulla samskola 1967–1969, Munksnäs svenska samskola 1976–1979 and from 1979.
Valtiala debuted in 1961 with the short story collection Landet Marita.
Valtiala is the son of economist Pertti Virko Valtiala and nurse Margareta Neovius. He married Carita Elisabeth Glad in 1961. He is the father of.
Valtiala sat on the board of the Finnish Playwrights Association 1970–1971.
In 2017 Valtiala organized a demonstration against construction work in the center of Kauniainen.

Published books

  • Landet Marita och andra short stories
  • Eight Short Stories
  • The Adventure
  • A Red Sports Car
  • Nalle honey-sucker
  • Warning to Man
  • Noise
  • Lag scrap lies
  • Like the fish in the water
  • Mies ei ole mies
  • Man tager vad man haver
  • Snake in the Sargasso Sea
  • Lotus: A Story of Love
  • Tonga
  • We are going towards a new ice age
  • Kunnes päivä koitta
  • Maailma loppuu Kidepoon
  • Rockefeller
  • It Happens in Aspnäs
  • Aikaa ei ole
  • Kapteeni Cookin kuolema
  • Kuppi teetä
  • Journey West, Young Man!: Essays
  • Linnut
  • In the Tracks of Mark Twain
  • Nation's Hero
  • Yin and Yang
  • Narcissus
  • A crazy tea party
  • The boy who went underground
  • Tangle
  • On my mother's street
  • On Korpila farm
  • Anna
  • Stinta's book
  • Jonna and the miracle tree
  • Humboldt's parrot
  • Utti's trip
  • Ride South with the wind
  • A gram of morphine now and then: pastiches from the land beyond the law
  • ''Fiskarkrönika2''

Awards and distinctions