Elmer Rafael Diktonius (20 January 1896 in

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– 23 September 1961 in

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) was a Finnish

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and

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, who wrote in both

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and in Finnish. In 1922 he established an avant-garde magazine, ''

Ultra adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. '' ...

'', which had Finnish and Swedish editions. He also involved in the establishment of another avant-garde magazine ''

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''. He mainly lived in Tuomistonoja of the

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village. Diktonius is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.

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* 1896 births 1961 deaths Writers from Helsinki People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish socialists Finnish male composers Finnish poets in Swedish 20th-century poets Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery 20th-century male musicians 20th-century Finnish composers Finnish magazine founders {{Finland-composer-stub