Juhani Siljo (3 May 1888 – 6 May 1918) was a Finnish poet and translator. Siljo was born as Johan Alarik Sjögren in Oulu. He completed the

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upper secondary school in 1907, and started studies in the University of Helsinki at the same year, but never graduated, instead he focused on writing. He wrote poems, essays and translated authors like Novalis,

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, Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and

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. Siljo also worked as an editor in the newspaper

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and the periodical Valvoja. From 1915 to 1916 he worked as a library assistant in Jyväskylä. Siljo was on the side of the White Guards in the Finnish Civil War. He was wounded and captured by the Red Guards in a battle in Orivesi. He died in a military hospital in Tampere after the Battle of Tampere had ended in the victory of the Whites.

Selected works

Poetry

*''Runoja'' (WSOY 1910) *''Maan puoleen'' (1914) *''Selvään veteen'' (Otava 1919)

Others

*''Rajankäyntejä : Esseitä kirjallisuudesta 1910-1917'' (Essays on literature) (Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura 1991) *''Seppelöity : murheellinen komedia'' (Play) (WSOY 1918)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Siljo, Juhani 1888 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Finnish people People from Oulu Finnish male poets Finnish-language poets Finnish translators People of the Finnish Civil War (White side) Translators to Finnish Writers from Northern Ostrobothnia 20th-century Finnish poets 20th-century translators 19th-century translators 19th-century male writers 20th-century male writers Translators of Charles Baudelaire Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe