Olavi Paavolainen

Olavi Paavolainen was born in 1903 in Kivennapa, on the Karelian Isthmus, the son of a jurist and of a mother from a noble family. He passed his school-leaving exam in 1921, studied aesthetics and literary history in Helsinki, was one of the leaders of the Torchbearers and edited their journal in 1930. He introduced the European avant-gardes to Finland, worked in advertising and drew from his travels in Germany and South America books that attracted notice. His native land remained behind the new border. From 1947 to 1964 he headed the drama department of the national radio and died in 1964.

In the catalogue 1

• DiarySynkkä yksinpuheluOlavi Paavolainen · 1946not translated into EnglishLiterature