Volter Kilpi

Volter Kilpi, who bore the name Ericsson until 1886, was born in Kustavi on 12 December 1874, the son of a ship's captain who was also a landowner; his younger brother Eero became an actor. He passed his school-leaving examination at the Turku lyceum in 1895 and took his candidate's degree in philosophy in Helsinki in 1900. He published three neo-Romantic books and then fell silent for almost twenty years, apart from two political books. From 1921 until his death he was the first chief librarian of the library of the new University of Turku, where he died on 13 June 1939.

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• NovelAlastalon salissaVolter Kilpi · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature