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Eino Leino Prize
The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabbe Enckell *1959 Aapeli (Simo Puupponen) *1960 Olavi Paavolainen *1961 Juha Mannerkorpi *1962 Pertti Nieminen *1963 Paavo Haavikko *1964 Arvo Salo *1965 Hagar Olsson *1966 Einari Vuorela *1967 Marja-Leena Mikkola *1968 Kerttu Kauniskangas *1969 Mirjam Polkunen *1970 Heikki Palmu *1971 Vilhelm Helander and Mikael Sundman *1972 Raoul Palmgren *1973 Arvo Turtiainen *1974 Kaisa Korhonen *1975 Henrik Tikkanen *1976 Eila Kivikk'aho *1977 Nils-Börje Stormbom *1978 Jukka Vieno *1979 Mirkka Rekola *1980 Elvi Sinervo *1981 Väinö Kirstinä *1982 Hannu Mäkelä *1983 Pentti Linkola Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 – 5 April 2020) was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heikki Palmu
Heikki Palmu (born in 1946) is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabbe Enc ... in 1970. References 20th-century Finnish male writers Recipients of the Eino Leino Prize Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannu Mäkelä (writer)
Hannu Mäkelä (born 18 August 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is an author of more than 100 books in Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...: novels, collections of short stories, edited anthologies and children's books. Hannu Mäkelä is known for his books for children in many countries around the world, especially the popular "Mr. Hoo" (Mr. Boo) series. Works Novels *''Traveling all the time'' (1965) External linksMäkelä's Website 1943 births Living people Writers from Helsinki Finnish male poets Finnish-language poets Finnish male novelists Finnish male short story writers Finnish short story writers Finnish children's writers Finlandia Prize winners 20th-century Finnish novelists 20th-century Finnish poets 20th-century male writers Recip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Väinö Kirstinä
Väinö Kirstinä (29 January 1936 - 23 September 2007) was a Finnish poet, journalist, translator and critic. He worked for the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation. He was the recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1981. Kirstinä was born in Tyrnävä and went to school in Oulu. He later moved to central Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ..., which inspired some of his later work. Works Poetry * ''Lakeus'' (1961) * ''Hitaat auringot'' (1963) * ''Puhetta'' ( Tammi, 1963) * ''Pitkän tähtäyksen LSD-suunnitelma (Long-term LSD Plan)'' (Tammi, 1967) * ''Säännöstelty eutanasia'' (Tammi, 1973) * ''Elämä ilman sijaista'' (Tammi, 1977) 951-30-4218-9 * ''Hiljaisuudesta'' (Tammi, 1984) * ''Yötä, päivää'' (Tammi, 1986) * ''Vieroitusoireita'' (Tammi, 1994) Ess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvi Sinervo
Elvi Aulikki Sinervo (4 May 1912, Helsinki – 28 August 1986 Helsinki) was a Finland, Finnish writer, poet, and translator. She was the recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1980. She married member of parliament Mauri Ryömä (1911–58). Their daughter is translator Liisa Ryömä. Works Sinervo's first work ''Runo Söörnäisistä'' ("A Poem about Söörnäinen", 1937) is a collection of short stories about working-class life in Helsinki. Her next work, ''Palavankylän seppä'' ("The Smith of Palavankylä", 1939) is a novel about Hermanni Rintaluoma, a man who comes back to the country after the Finnish Civil War, Civil War and tries to begin a new life amongst hatred and suspicion. Her another collection of short stories, ''Vuorelle nousu'' (A Climb to the Mountain, 1948) is about the experiences related to the underground Communist Party of Finland, Communist movement in the country. Her other significant works include her novels ''Viljami Vaihdokas'' ("Viljami the Change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirkka Rekola
Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 – 5 February 2014) was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays. Her poetry was considered ‘difficult’, thus she gained wide audience as late as in the 1990s. Rekola's production has not really been the subject of research until after the mid-1990s. Liisa Enwald's 1997 dissertation ''Kaiken liikkeessä lepo'' contributed to pioneering research. In 2020, the ''Runopuu'' mural, painted by Teemu Mäenpää and produced by the Annikki Poetry Festival, was published in Tampere, as part of which is Rekola's poem "Minä rakastan sinua, minä sanon sen kaikille". She died in Helsinki in 2014. Works Poems *Vedessä palaa (1954) ("It's Burning in the Water") *Tunnit (1957) ("The Hours") *Syksy muuttaa linnut (1961) ("Autumn Moves the Birds") *Ilo ja epäsymmetria (1965) ("Joy and Asymmetry") *Anna päivän olla kaikki (1968) ("Let the Day be Everything") *Minä rakastan sinua, minä sanon sen kaikille ( WSOY, 1972, ) (" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jukka Vieno
Jukka Sakari Vieno (born 4 April 1957 in Ilmajoki, Finland) is a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabbe Enc ... in 1978. References 1957 births Living people People from Ilmajoki[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils-Börje Stormbom
Nils-Börje Stormbom (26 September 1925 in Vaasa – 26 November 2016 Vaasa) was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabbe Enc ... in 1977. References 1925 births 2016 deaths People from Vaasa[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eila Kivikk'aho
Eila Sylvia Sammalkorpi (née Lamberg; 8 February 1921 – 21 June 2004), known by her pseudonym Eila Kivikk’aho, was a Finnish poet. Kivikk’aho was born in Sortavala soon after the World War I. One of her most famous poems is "Nocturno", which was already published in the debut work ''Sinikallio'' (1942). Kivikk’aho was awarded the State Prize for Literature in 1951, 1961, 1971 and 1976. She also received the Eino Leino Prize in 1976 and the Aleksis Kivi Prize in 1981. As a translator to Finnish, Kivikk’aho was awarded the State Prize for Translation in 1970 and 1979. She died in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ... at the age of 83. Publications * ''Sinikallio'' (1942; poems) * ''Viuhkalaulu'' (1945; poems) * ''Niityltä pois'' (1951; poems) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Tikkanen
Georg Henrik Tikkanen (9 September 1924, Helsinki – 19 May 1984, Espoo) was a Finland-Swedish author, known primarily for anti-war literature. Several of his works are either autobiographical or semi-autobiographical. Though Finnish, he published primarily in his mother tongue, Swedish. He was born and lived much of his life in Helsinki, and died of leukemia in Espoo. He was married to the Finnish writer Märta Tikkanen. Biography He was the son of architect Toivo Robert Tikkanen and Kylliki Ingeborg Vitali, great-grandson of and grandson of . Tikkanen was married to Lia Tikkanen from 1949 to 1962 and to Märta Cavonius from 1963. Tikkanen had no formal artistic training. As a teenager he contributed illustrations to weekly magazines and children's books, and drew the series "Konrad" which was published in '. After graduating in 1943, he pursued liberal arts studies and received some guidance in graphic techniques from some active graphic artists. From 1947 to 1967, Tikk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Korhonen
Kaisa Korhonen (born 20 July 1941) is a Finnish singer, actor, theatre director and writer. She was a central figure in the Finnish leftist music scene of the 60s and 70s, appearing both as a solo artist, and with KOM-teatteri. After her singing career, Korhonen has become an accomplished director and teacher of theatre directing. Career Korhonen studied scenography at the ''Taideteollinen oppilaitos'' (now Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture) between 1961 and 1965. Korhonen had first started singing in public in 1962, but her career as a vocalist really began in the spring of 1964, with performances at the ''Lilla Teatern'' in Helsinki. At the time, she also starred in the ''Orvokit'' series of political cabarets, which aired on the radio between 1965 and 1966. Korhonen has become especially known for her interpretations of Kaj Chydenius' songs. Korhonen's style is marked by her loud, even shouting expression. Her singing became a symbol of the rise of lefti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvo Turtiainen
Arvo Albin Turtiainen (16 September 1904, Helsinki – 8 October 1980) was a Finnish writer and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize The Eino Leino Prize is an annual prize award to top writers in Finland since 1956, with particular emphasis on poets. It is named after Eino Leino, a pioneer of Finnish poetry. Recipients *1956 Viljo Kajava *1957 Helvi Juvonen *1958 Rabbe Enc ... in 1973. Works * Muutos (1936) * Rautakourat (1938) * Tie pilven alta (1939) * Palasin kotiin (1944) * Laulu kiven ja raudan ympyrässä (1945) * Ihminen n:o 503/42 (1946) * Laulu puolueelle (1946) * Tapahtui satamassa (1954) * Laulu ajasta ja rakkaudesta (1954) * Minä rakastan (1955) * Syyskevät (1959) * Minä paljasjalkainen (1962) * Runoja 1943–64 (1964) * Hyvää joulua (1967) * Puheita Porthaninrinteellä (1968) * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
