Lars Huldén

Lars Huldén was born in Jakobstad in 1926, the son of the writer Evert Huldén, from a peasant family of Munsala, in Ostrobothnia, which nourished all his work. He passed his school-leaving examination in 1944, studied in Helsinki and Uppsala, defended in 1957 a thesis on the conjugation of the Swedish dialects of Ostrobothnia, directed the workers' institute of Kokkola, then was, from 1964 to 1989, professor of Nordic languages at the University of Helsinki. He made his debut in poetry in 1958 and produced some forty collections, as well as plays and songs. He translated the Kalevala with his son and died in 2016.

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• PoetryHerdedikterLars Huldén · 1973not translated into EnglishLiterature