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Frans Eemil Sillanpää (September 16, 1888 - June 3, 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1939: for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature, and he is still the only Finn awarded that prize.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born into a peasant family in Hämeenkyrö[?].
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 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa
Frans Eemil Sillanpaa was born on the 16th of September, 1888, at Yla-Satakunta in the Hameenkyro Parish of Finland on a desolate croft of the same name.
Sillanpaa's parents had experienced all the trials and tribulations common to generations of settlers in those parts of Finland.
Sillanpaa acquired at a nearby village shop some stationary of the type favoured by village lads for private correspondence and wrote a short story, which he sent to the editor of a large city paper without much hope of seeing it published.
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 AllRefer.com - Frans Eemil SillanpAA (Scandinavian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Frans Eemil SillanpAA[frAns A´mil sil´lAnpa´´] Pronunciation Key, 1888–1964, Finnish novelist.
As a young man SillanpAA studied natural science at Helsinki and came under the influence of an artistic circle that included the composer Sibelius.
SillanpAA was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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 Frans Emil Sillanpää
Frans Emil Sillanpää was born into a peasant family in Hämeenkyrö;, at Myllykolu Croft in Kierikkala Village in southwest Finland.
His father, Frans Henrik Koskinen, was an impoverished day-laborer.
She married Frans Henrik at the age of 34.
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 Frans Eemil Sillanpää - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (September 16, 1888 – June 3, 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939 "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature."
The asteroid 1446 Sillanpaa, discovered by the renowned Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä, was named after him.
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 Sillanpaa, Frans Eemil
After 1939, Sillanpaa (1880-1964) wrote the novels Elokuu (1944) [August] and Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus (1945) [The Loveliness and Wretchedness of Human Life].
An account of his life, Poika eli elamaansa [The Boy Lived His Life], based mainly on the Finnish radio broadcasts of his memoirs, was published in 1953.
Sillanpaa's family name was Koskinen and was later changed to Sillanpaa.
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 Frans - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Finland Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the 1900´s, the novelists Frans Eemil Sillanpaa and Mika Waltari gained international fame.
Sillanpaa won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1939, becoming the first Finn to win the award.
Finnish glassware, ceramics, furniture, and textiles are world famous for the simple beauty of their design.
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 Frans Sillanpaa : Nobel Prize Winner in Literature -a star in the creative literary firmament! A great vista to behold, ...
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