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Juhani Aho

Died in 1921

Johannes Brofeldt, who took the name Juhani Aho, was born on 11 September 1861 in Lapinlahti, the son of a pastor known as a preacher of the Awakening. A pupil at the Kuopio lyceum, he entered the University of Helsinki in 1880, which he left without a degree for journalism, and in 1889 took part in the founding of the daily Päivälehti. A state grant took him to Paris in 1889 and 1890, where he met Daudet. Married in 1891 to the painter Venny Soldan, he settled in 1897 on the shore of Lake Tuusula. The first Finnish writer to live by his pen, and proposed several times for the Nobel Prize, he died in Helsinki on 8 August 1921.

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