Viljo Kajava
Appearance
Viljo Kajava | |
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Born | Tampere | 22 September 1909
Died | 2 February 1998 Helsinki | (aged 88)
Resting place | Hietaniemi Cemetery |
Occupation | poet, journalist |
Notable awards | Pro Finlandia |
Viljo Lennart Kajava (22 September 1909 – 2 February 1998) was a Finnish poet and writer. He was born in Tampere, and his first collections of poems were released in 1935. During his 50-year career he published nearly 40 books, most of them poems. Kavaja's Tampereen runot ("Poems of Tampere 1918") has become a symbol of the pacifistic point of view of the Finnish Civil War.
He died in Helsinki, and is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery there.[1]
Notes
- ^ "Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia" (PDF). Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
External links
- Petri Liukkonen. "Viljo Kajava". Books and Writers.