
Yrjö Jylhä
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 68 years ago |
Date of birth | July 21,1903 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Tampere |
Finland | |
Date of died | December 30,1956 |
Died | Turku |
Finland | |
Job | Translator |
Poet | |
Awards | Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland |
Place of burial | Kalevankangas Cemetery, Tampere, Finland |
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ID | 905706 |
Yrjö Jylhä Life story
Yrjö Jylhä (1903-1956) Finnish poet, and translator, whose poems were brusque and masculine, but who was inwardly responsive and sensitive. The turning point in Yrjö Jylhä's career was the Winter War (1939-40), when he witnessed as an officer the horrors of the front line.