Uuno Kailas

Frans Uuno Salonen, who officially took the name Uuno Kailas in 1924, was born on 29 March 1901 near Heinola. His mother dead and his father unable to look after him, he was raised by a grandmother of severe religion, who placed him with various relatives. A volunteer in 1919 in the Aunus expedition, in eastern Karelia, he lost his best friend there. He then lived in Helsinki from advertising, journalism and translation. Struck by mental illness at the end of the twenties, then by tuberculosis, he went to Nice for treatment, where he died in March 1933, a week before his thirty-second birthday.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryUni ja kuolemaUuno Kailas · 1931not translated into EnglishLiterature