Saraste, 3 June 1927 Viipuri – 14 August 2006 Kuopio) was a journalist and author from Finland.
[1] The protagonist of many of Karjalainen's books is Uppo-Nalle, a teddybear who loves poetry.
[2] As a journalist Karjalainen worked for Savon Sanomat and Suomen Kuvalehti as well as a freelancer.
[2] Karjalainen got the passion to read from her childhood home in Viipuri.
Her need to write emerged from series of crisis she encountered in age of eleven: First her mother died, then Winter war started and all Finns had to leave Viipuri.