Marko Hautala

Author

Marko Hautala is a writer of literary horror whose work has been translated into eight languages. Two of his stories have been optioned for film.

Hautala’s story Pale Toes was nominated for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award. In his native Finland, he has received the Tiiliskivi Prize, Kalevi Jäntti Literary Prize and was nominated for the Young Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2013.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Hautala worked as a translator, teacher and nurse in a psychiatric hospital.