About
Finnish, folklore-influenced poet, writer, and journalist who is especially remembered for his Helkavirsia poetry volumes. Over the course of his career, he published more than seventy collections of short stories and poems.
Before Fame
He grew up as one of ten children and published his first poem when he was twelve years old.
Trivia
His journalistic influence and health both faded following the Finnish Civil War.
Family Life
He married three times and had one child. He died in Tuusula, Finland at the age of forty-seven.
Associated With
He was born in the same year as American poet Carl Sandburg.
