Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1934-04-12
- Died
- 2013-01-29
- Works
- 93
Top works
- AHOE2
- City Lights Journal
- New American writing
- Alembic
- St texts & Finnpoems
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 75
Tags
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Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (April 12, 1934 – January 29, 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January 2013. Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the UK and in the US, in a style strongly influenced by the American beat poets. In the 1960s Hollo lived in London and worked at the Finnish section of BBC World Service. One of his tasks there was to write radio dramas in Finnish, together with another Finnish poet, Matti Ros
Key dates
- Born
- 12 April 1934
- Died
- 29 January 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Helsinki
- Place of death
- Boulder
- Father
- Juho Aukusti Hollo
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Camp Rising Sun
- Employer
- University of Iowa
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
Connections
Categories
1934 births2013 deaths20th-century Finnish male writers20th-century Finnish people20th-century Finnish poets20th-century Finnish translatorsBeat Generation writersDeaths from pneumonia in ColoradoEnglish-language poetsFinnish expatriates in the United StatesFinnish male poetsIowa Writers' Workshop faculty