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Frans Emil Sillanpää

Died in 1964

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born on 16 September 1888 in Hämeenkyrö, the only surviving child of a couple of smallholders. After secondary school in Tampere, he studied natural sciences in Helsinki from 1908 to 1913, then returned to the countryside to write and contributed to the newspaper Uusi Suometar. Married in 1916, he worked from 1924 to 1927 for a publishing house in Porvoo. Opposed on principle to all violence, he saw man as a part of nature. The first Finnish writer to win the Nobel Prize, in 1939, he died in Helsinki on 3 June 1964.

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