Maria Gustaava Jotuni (Haggrén until 1906,[1] Jotuni-Tarkiainen from 1911, born 9 April 1880[1] Kuopio, died 30 September 1943 in Helsinki) was a Finnish author and a playwright.

[2] Jotuni met her future husband, the literary critic Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951), in the university, and they got married in 1911.

She is sometimes considered an early feminist,[3] and according to Jukka's son Kari Tarkiainen, her posthumously published novel Huojuva talo ("Tottering House") was based on her marriage to his grandfather; it depicts the husband as nightmarishly abusive.

She started working as a journalist in a student magazine at the University of Helsinki.

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