Kaarlo Sarkia

Kaarlo Teodor Sulin, who took the name Kaarlo Sarkia, was born in Kiikka on 11 May 1902. A graduate of the co-educational school in Tyrvää in 1923, he attended courses at the universities of Turku and Helsinki without finishing them. He never had a fixed home or job and spent long periods in sanatoria; his journeys to Switzerland and Italy mattered for his work. A translator of French and Italian poetry, he belonged to the second wave of the Torchbearers and twice received the State Prize. He died of tuberculosis in Sysmä on 16 November 1945.

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• PoetryRunotKaarlo Sarkia · 1944not translated into EnglishLiterature