Alpo Ruuth

 Alpo Armas Ruuth ( March 17, 1943 Helsinki – May 24, 2002 Helsinki) was a Finnish writer , whose works often focus on the working-class neighborhoods of Helsinki Kallio and Sörnäinen and their inhabitants.

Ruuth was born on March 17, 1943 in Helsinki.  Before becoming a writer, Alpo Ruuth worked, among other things, as a salesman, car attendant and cobbler. His breakthrough work Kämppä (1969) describes Sörkä 's youth gang in the late 1950s . Ruuth's books deal with many social topics, for example moving to Sweden ( Kotimaa , 1974), the army ( Korpraali Julin , 1971) and the depression of the early 1990s ( Kolme miestässa Toyota , 1993).

In his breakthrough novel Kämppä (1967), Ruuth dealt with a boy's sack living in his own corner of his home in Sörnäis. Like many of Ruuth's novels, the protagonist Pera is an anti-hero from modest circumstances, whose development and failures are followed in the novel. His counterpart is Olli, who knows how to play a crooked game, who masters the art of moving forward. The novel reflects the group's internal rules, which differ from the norms of the rest of society. 

Alpo Ruuth wrote the screenplay for the television movie Tykkimies Kauppala's final stages (1977), directed by Veli-Matti Saikkonen , starring Vesa-Matti Loiri .

Ruuth died on March 24, 2002 in Helsinki.