Tiina Pystynen

Tiina Pystynen in Finnish Comics Annual 2013 (images via Rackham)

In her books, Tiina Pystynen combines her own visual art and text. These are modern-day illuminated manuscripts.

Tiina Pystynen is a writer and a graphic artist, born in Finland in 1955. Since 1987 she has published novels, non-fiction, illustrated poems and autobiographical graphic novels for adults. 
She dwells mainly on sensual, eternal, female subjects like love, motherhood and sexuality. Pystynen deals with her subject matter with experience, wisdom and broadmindedness. She is well loved among comic and poetry readers as well as all women fiction readers who, in turning points of their lives, look for knowledge, joy and support in her work. 
Among her works are an autobiographical picturebooks for adults, The Memoirs of the Queen Widow and The Lonely Woman´s Love Stories, about life of a family after the father´s suicide. A novel, The Cage of Shame, showing the process of psychotherapy from a patient´s point of view.

See more of her artistry on her website: http://tiinapystynen.com/IN-ENGLISH/

Interview: https://www.lukulamppu.fi/mita-luet-tiina-pystynen/

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