Jari Tervo

Jari Tervo
Jari Tervo at the Turku Book Fair 2010.
Born	(1959-02-02) February 2, 1959 (age 58) Rovaniemi, Finland
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Prose, Poetry

Jari Tervo (born February 2, 1959) is a Finnish author. He is a major name in current Finnish literature.

He writes traditional plot-driven prose, sometimes more humoristic (Poliisin poika), sometimes more like a detective story (Myyrä). Often he includes autobiographical elements. For example, Kallellaan is a diary, and Minun sukuni tarina has a protagonist which is, in all but de jure, the author himself. Despite the good reputation he has gained in Finland, only one of his novels have been translated into English - Among the Saints (Pyhiesi Yhteyteen) in 2014.

As another of the team captains he is also a familiar face from Finnish TV's version of Have I Got News For You, Uutisvuoto.