Säde Eila Talvikki Pennanen (8 February 1916, in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

– 23 January 1994, in Tampere) was a Finnish writer, critic, essayist, and translator. A key contributor to nurturing

Finnish literature Finnish literature refers to literature written in Finland. During the European early Middle Ages, the earliest text in a Finnic language is the unique thirteenth-century Birch bark letter no. 292 from Novgorod. The text was written in Cyrilli ...

, she published approximately twenty novels and a number of short stories and plays. She worked for 40 years as a literary critic and wrote essays for magazines. Pennanen translated a hundred books, trained translators, and lectured.

Awards

Her awards have included: *1965,

Aleksis Kivi Aleksis Kivi (; born Alexis Stenvall; 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, ''Seitsemän veljestä'' ("Seven Brothers") in 1870. He is also known for his 1864 p ...

award *1971, Mikael Agricola Prize from the Finnish Cultural Foundation *1974,

Väinö Linna Väinö Linna (; 20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author. He gained literary fame with his third novel, ''Tuntematon sotilas'' ( ''The Unknown Soldier'', published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy ''Tää ...

Prize

Selected works

References

Bibliography

*Pennanen, Eila (1948). : novel. Helsinki:

Schildts Schildts Förlags Ab was a Swedish-language book publisher in Finland. The publisher published textbooks as well as fiction and non-fiction. The head office was in Helsinki and there was a branch located in Vaasa. The publisher was owned by Sve ...

. *. Kirjasampo.fi. Accessed 6 March 2014. *Pennanen, Eila; Holmqvist Margaretha (1957). : novel. Helsinki: Söderström.

External links

Eila Pennanen in 375 humanists – 24 April 2015. Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pennanen, Eila 1916 births 1994 deaths People from Tampere Finnish women novelists Finnish literary critics Finnish women literary critics Finnish essayists Finnish women essayists Finnish translators 20th-century translators 20th-century Finnish novelists 20th-century Finnish women writers 20th-century essayists Thanks for the Book Award winners