Henrik Tikkanen

Georg Henrik Tikkanen (9 September 1924, Helsinki – 19 May 1984, Espoo) was a Finland-Swedish author, known primarily for anti-war literature.

As a teenager he contributed illustrations to weekly magazines and children's books, and drew the series "Konrad" which was published in Svenska Pressen [sv; fi].

From 1947 to 1967, Tikkanen was a columnist and cartoonist for Hufvudstadsbladet and from 1967 for the Finnish-language daily Helsingin Sanomat and from 1977 for Dagens Nyheter.

He wrote a series of autobiographical and expository books, including Brändövägen 8, in which he came to terms with his Finnish-Swedish bourgeois background.

These books were one of the causes of the Tikkanen-Kihlman debate, which was partly about the negative image of the Finnish-Swedish upper class given by the two authors' self-confessions.