Gunnar Björling

Gunnar Björling was born in Helsingfors in 1887, the youngest of three brothers, and also grew up in Vyborg and Hamina; in 1896, a stroke left his father, a postmaster, disabled and ruined the family. He studied philosophy under Edvard Westermarck, whose thought deeply marked him, and was a social-democrat student activist. He made his debut at thirty-five, in 1922. He lived almost all his life in a basement room near Brunnsparken, a place of pilgrimage for young writers. Twice winner of the State Prize, he died in Helsingfors in 1960.

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• PoetrySolgröntGunnar Björling · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature