Emil Benedict Zilliacus (11 January 1921 – 28 January 2013) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist, author, scriptwriter and translator. Zilliacus was born in

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. He wrote

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s for many movies, including '' Etulinjan edessä'' (Beyond the Front Line), which he wrote together with Stefan Forss. In the 1950s and 1960s, he wrote a

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for the Swedish theater ''Lilla Teatern'' in Helsinki every other year, or sometimes more often; the show became very popular.

Bibliography

*''Bilderbok för stora barn'' (1951) *''Vi ser på Helsingfors'' (1952) *''Korsetten'' (1962) *''Wärtsilä'' (1967) *''Sex årtionden i pressbilder'' (1971) (with Hugo Sundström) *''Utöar'' (1975) *''Öar, holmar och skär'' (1977) *''100 klipp ur vår dagbok'' (1977) *''Wihelm Wahlforss'' (1984) *''Bergets skugga'' (1987) *''Båten i vassen'' (1990) *''Förlorat och bevarat'' (1996)

Awards

* The Thanks for the Book Award 1991

References

External links

*
Biografiskt lexikon för Finland.
1921 births 2013 deaths Writers from Helsinki Finnish writers in Swedish Finnish military personnel of World War II {{finland-writer-stub