Uuno Kailas, born Frans Uno Salonen (29 March 1901 – 22 March 1933) was a

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, writer, and translator. Together with

Kaarlo Sarkia Kaarlo Sarkia (11 May 1902 – 16 November 1945) was a Finnish poet and translator who was influenced by romantic poetry. His poems include motifs like childhood memories, love, landscapes and dreamworld, and in his last collection of poetry also ...

, Kailas was the most prominent Finnish poet of the 1930s.

Life

Kailas was born in

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. After his mother's death, the boy received a strict religious upbringing from his grandmother. He studied in

and occasionally in the

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. In 1919, he took part in the

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, where his close friend Bruno Schildt was killed. Kailas' criticism and translations were published in ''

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''. His first collection of poetry was ''Tuuli ja tähkä'' in 1922. Kailas served in the army from 1923 until 1925. In 1929, he was hospitalized due to

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, and he was also diagnosed with

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. He died in

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in 1933, and was buried in

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Works

Poetry

* ''Tuuli ja tähkä'' (Gummerus, 1922) * ''Purjehtijat'' (WSOY, 1925) * ''Silmästä silmään'' (Schildt, 1926) * ''Paljain jaloin'' (Otava, 1928) * ''Uni ja kuolema'' (WSOY, 1931) * ''Runoja'' (poems from poetry collections ''Paljain jaloin'', ''Purjehtijat'', ''Silmästä silmään'', ''Tuuli ja tähkä'' and ''Uni ja kuolema''; WSOY, 1932) * ''Punajuova'' (WSOY, 1933) * ''Valikoima runoja'' (WSOY, 1938) * ''Isien tie'' (WSOY, 1941) * ''Uuno Kailaan runoja'' (selection; WSOY, 1963) * ''Ja tomust alkaa avaruus'' (selection; Karisto, 1984) * ''Unen, kuoleman ja intohimon lauluja'' (selection; Otava, 1986) * ''Unten maa'' (selection; Karisto 1989) * ''Tuulien laulu'' (selection; among Saima Harmaja's and Eino Leino's poems; Kirjapaja, 1992) * ''Tuulien nousuun'' (Kirjapaja, 1996) * ''Palava laulu'' (selection; WSOY, 2000)

Short stories

* ''Novelleja'' (WSOY 1936)

Translations

* Leacock, Stephen: ''Pukinsorkka'' (Gummerus, 1923) * Bruhn, Rudolf: ''Kuuden kerho'' (Otava 1924) * ''Kaunis Saksa'' (WSOY 1924) * ''Rakkauden korkea veisu'' (Gummerus 1924) * Rosen, Erwin: ''Kaikkien valtojen uhalla'' (Gummerus 1924) * France, Anatole: ''Aadamin ensimmäisen vaimon tytär'' (Kansanvalta 1926) * Mörne, Arvid: ''Meren kasvojen edessä'' (Schildt 1926) * Scott, Gabriel: ''Polku'' (Schildt 1926) * Södergran, Edith: ''Levottomia unia'' (Tulenkantajain osakeyhtiö 1929) * Kessel, Joseph: ''Ruhtinasöitä ''(Näytelmä 1930) * Tegnér, Esaias: ''Fritjofin taru'' (Otava 1932) * Södergran, Edith: ''Kohtaamisia'' (valikoima; WSOY 1982) * Södergran, Edith: ''Runoja'' (WSOY 1942; also known as ''Kultaiset linnut'', Karisto 1990) * Södergran, Edith: ''Elämäni, kuolemani ja kohtaloni'' (among Pentti Saaritsa's ja Aale Tynni's translations; Otava 1994) * Södergran, Edith: ''Hiljainen puutarha'' (Karisto 1994)

Literature

* Maunu Niinistö: ''Uuno Kailas: hänen elämänsä ja hänen runoutensa''. WSOY, 1956. * Matti Hälli: ''Uuno Kailaasta Aila Meriluotoon. Suomalaisten kirjailijain elämäkertoja.'' WSOY, 1947. * ''Uuno Kailas: muistojulkaisu''. WSOY, 1933. *

Kalle Achté Karl Aimo "Kalle" Achté (12 September 1928 – 30 January 2019) was a Finnish psychiatrist. He was a physician and psychiatrist at Helsinki University Central Hospital from 1956 to 1961 and Hesperia Hospital 1961 to 1966, taking his doctoral de ...

: ''Uuno Kailas - runoilija psykiatrin silmin''. Yliopistopaino.

References

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