Career
Hannu Luntiala made the Master of Laws degree in the University of Helsinki in 1979. In the same year, he began his career at the Population Register Centre and has since worked in the office in several different positions, e.g. as the Head of Administration and Educational Affairs. Luntiala became the Director in 1995 and later the Director General in 2003.
Population Register Centre is a Finnish state authority responsible for development of population information system, nationwide information services and certificate services of electronic identification.
Hannu Luntiala"s poetry and short stories have been published in several anthologies and magazines since the 1980s. In 1999, Luntiala was one of the winners of a poem contest organized by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
In 2006, Finnish publishing company Tammi published Luntiala"s short story collection, Hommes (French for "men", "people"). Hommes is a collection of short stories about melancholic and restricted Finnish males who cannot communicate with their loved ones.
Luntiala"s debut novel Viimeiset viestit ("Last Messages") was published in 2007.
lieutenant is a story told in form of text messages in its entirety. lieutenant is said to be the world"s first text message novel. lieutenant has been translated to Croatian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Russian and Estonian.
Viimeiset viestit was followed by the novel In memoriam in 2008.
lieutenant mostly consists of fictional obituaries and a man trying to piece them together. Luntiala"s third novel, Petri Vallin toinen elämä ("The Other Life of Petri Vall"), was released in 2010.
lieutenant is about a man who steals a dead man"s identity, abandoning his old life and starting a new one as Petri Vall. Aviador Kustannus will publish Luntiala"s fourth novel, titled Ihmissyöjän päiväkirja ("The Diary of a Manitoba-Eater"), in fall 2016 in Finland.
lieutenant tells the story of two immigrant body lice.