Katri Vala

Karin Alice Wadenström, known as Katri Vala, was born in Muonio on 11 September 1901; her father, a forester, sank into mental illness. Qualified as a teacher at the Heinola seminary in 1922, she taught intermittently in villages until 1937, without ever obtaining a permanent post. Stricken with tuberculosis in the twenties, she married Armas Heikel in 1930. She belonged to the Tulenkantajat (Torchbearers) group, then founded with others the left-wing circle Kiila. She died on 28 May 1944 in a sanatorium in Småland, Sweden. Her brother Erkki Vala also wrote.

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• PoetryPaluuKatri Vala · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature