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Eino Leino

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Born: July 05 1878

Died: 0909 01 19261926

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Eino Leino was born as Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm in Paltamo and was the seventh and youngest son in a family of ten children.

Leino published his first poem at 12 and, by age 18, a collection of poems as well, Maaliskuun lauluja.

Writing career

Early in his career Eino Leino was much loved and praised by the critics. He joined literary and newspaper circles and became a member of the Young Finnish circle. Among Leino's friends were the artist Pekka Halonen and Otto Manninen, who gained fame as a poet and translator.[1]

After the Finnish Civil War, Leino's idealistic faith for a national unity collapsed, and his influence as a journalist and polemicist weakened. He was granted a State writer's pension in 1918 at the age of forty. Although publishing prolifically, he had financial problems and his health deteriorated. "Life is always a struggle with eternal forces," Leino said in a letter in 1925 to his friend Bertel Gripenberg.[2]

Leino published over 70 books of poems and stories. The most famous of these are the two poem collections Helkavirsiä , in which he extensively uses Finnish mythology and folklore. In addition, Leino was the first person in Finland to translate Dante's Divine Comedy into Finnish.[3]

Leino was married three times and had one daughter, Eija. He died in 1926 at age 47.

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Books from Eino Leino

Helkavirsiä I-II

Kauneimpia runoja rakkaudesta

Alla kasvon Kaikkivallan – Mystillinen trilogia: Erään aikansa lapsen ajatuksia, tunnustuksia ja kaukonäkyjä

Rahan orja

Tuomas Vitikka

Naisen orja

Onnen orja

Laulaja tähtiä laulelee: Eino Leinon runoja

Jumalien keinu – Valikoima runoja

Voices from Finland: An Anthology of Finlands Verse and Prose

Elon tiukuja: Syntymäpäiväkirja Eino Leinon runoin

Eino Leinon kirjeet Freya Schoultzille ja omaisille

Eino Leinon pakinat I

De Moderne Finsche Poëzie

Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden helmiä

Toisillemme

Työn orja

Tuonelan joutsen

Runot 1–2

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