Pentti Haanpää

Pentti Haanpää was born on 14 October 1905 in Piippola, where he lived all his life. He had only primary school, supplemented by correspondence courses in English and philosophy, and published his first book in 1925. His 1928 collection on barracks life set off a press war: branded a communist and an insulter of the army, he was unable to publish from 1930 to 1935. He fought in the Winter War in an infantry regiment, at Salla and then in the Bay of Vyborg. His collected works include more than three hundred short stories. He drowned while fishing on a lake in Pyhäntä on 30 September 1955.

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• NovelNoitaympyräPentti Haanpää · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature