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Väinö Linna was a Finnish writer and prose writer who wrote in Finnish. Born Väinö Valtteri Linna in Urjala on December 20, 1920, he participated in the Winter War, the Continuation War, and World War II, holding the rank of corporal. His literary career began in 1954. He is known for notable works including *The Unknown Soldier* and *Under the North Star*.
Linna received several awards, including the Kalevi Jäntti Award, the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the Jussi Awards, and the Aleksis Kivi Award. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of lung cancer on April 21, 1992, due to natural causes and is buried at Kalevankangas cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1920
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 34
Top works
- 普通士兵
- 北极星下
- Les gardes rouges de Tampere
- The unknown soldier
- Neizvestnyĭ soldat
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Urjala, Finland
Known for
- The Dinosaur — Self (archive footage)2021
- Memories of the President — Self1982
- Kolmen kaupungin kasvot1962
- Author of "Unknown Soldier", Väinö Linna — Self1955
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1920-12-20 ) 20 December 1920, Urjala , Finland
- Died
- 21 April 1992 (1992-04-21) (aged 71), Tampere , Finland
- Occupation
- Author
- Nationality
- Finnish
- Notable works
- The Unknown Soldier , Under the North Star trilogy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Valtteri
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Urjala
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Finnish
- Notable work
- Under the North Star
- Conflict
- Continuation War
- Military rank
- Corporal
- Image
- Vaino Linna color.jpg
- Work location
- Tampere
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- date of birth
- 1920-12-20
- date of death
- 1992-04-21
- Commons category
- Väinö Linna
- birth name
- Väinö Valtteri Linna
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- place of burial
- Kalevankangas cemetery
- medical condition
- cerebral infarction
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- name in native language
- Väinö Linna
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
- writing language
- Finnish
- ethnic group
- Finns
- allegiance
- Finland
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Encyclopedic overview
Väinö Valtteri Linna ( pronounced [ˈʋæi̯nø ˈlinːɑ] ; 20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author and a former soldier who fought in the Continuation War (1941–44). Linna gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola). Both have been adapted to a film format on several occasions; The Unknown Soldier was first adapted into a film in 1955 and Under the North Star in 1968 as Here, Beneath the North Star, both directed by Edvin Laine.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Väinö Linna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.