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Elvi Sinervo

Died in 1986

Elvi Sinervo was born in Helsinki on 4 May 1912, the daughter of a sheet-metal worker, in a large family; she passed her school-leaving examination in 1933 and made her debut in 1937 with short stories about working-class life. A member of Kiila and of the Workers' Theatre, she was active in the Finland-Soviet Union Society; sentenced in 1941 to penal servitude for preparing treason, she was released in 1944. The wife of the member of parliament Mauri Ryömä, expelled from the Communist Party in 1959, she then devoted herself to translation, of Hesse, Brecht and many others. She received the Eino Leino Prize in 1980 and died in Helsinki on 28 August 1986.

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