Aila Meriluoto
Aila Meriluoto (10 January 1924 – 21 October 2019) was a Finnish poet, writer and translator. Meriluoto was born in Pieksämäki, and published her first collection of poems, Lasimaalaus at the age of 22. It was a success among critics and readers.
Also recorded as Aila Meriluoto-Paakkanen · Aila Marjatta Meriluoto · Aila Marjatta Meriluoto-Paakkanen
Aila Meriluoto
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- Name
- Aila Meriluoto
- Born
- 10 January 1924
- Birthplace
- Pieksämäki, Finland
- Died
- 21 October 2019 (aged 95)
- Place of death
- Helsinki, Finland
- Occupation
- Poet, Writer, Translator
- Spouse
- Lauri Viita
- Full name
- Aila Marjatta Meriluoto.
- Nationality
- Finland
- Honours
- Kalevi Jäntti Award · Aleksis Kivi Award · Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland · Savonia Prize
- Languages
- Finnish · Swedish
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She became the most celebrated and widely read female poet of post-war Finland. The central themes of her early poems are art and femininity. Her first collections reflect the influence of Austrian author Rainer Maria Rilke. In the collection Pahat unet (1956), some of the poems have a free form. The next collection, Portaat, came five years later, and there Meriluoto had found her own modern style of expression. Meriluoto lived in Sweden for 13 years. In 1974, she moved back to Finland, and the language of her poetry changed again to closer to a talking voice. In addition to poems, Meriluoto wrote novels and books for young people. She has translated works by Harry Martinson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Shakespeare and Goethe. Meriluoto was married from 1948 to 1956 to another poet, Lauri Viita. She described him and their stormy marriage in a biographical novel. Meriluoto died in a care home in Helsinki on 21 October 2019, aged 95.
Photograph of the Finnish writer and translator Aila Meriluoto (1924–2019) at a typewriter.
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• Name — Aila Meriluoto • Born — 10 January 1924 • Birthplace — Pieksämäki, Finland • Died — 21 October 2019 (aged 95) • Place of death — Helsinki, Finland • Occupation — Poet, Writer, Translator • Spouse — Lauri Viita
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Aila Meriluoto was a writer, born on 10 January 1924 in Pieksämäki, Finland and died on 21 October 2019 in Helsinki. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Pieksämäki.
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- 1.Leaving War Behind. Nordic Women's Literature. 2012-02-18.
- 2.Meriluoto, Aila. Nordic Women's Literature.
- 3."Äidin mielestä minusta tuli runoilija, kun löin pääni vauvana" – Aila Meriluoto. yle.fi.
- 4.Meriluoto, Aila (1924-2019). kansallisbiografia.fi.
- 5.Runoilija Aila Meriluoto on kuollut. Ilta Sanomat. 2019-10-22.
- 6.Aila Meriluoto on kuollut 95-vuotiaana – tästä me hänet muistamme. Seura.fi. 2019-10-22.
- 7.Tällaisena Pro Finlandiallakin palkittu Aila Meriluoto muistetaan – kirjailija Panu Rajala muistelee rakasta taiteilijaystäväänsä: "Siinä oli harvinaisen sisukas ja selviytymiskykyinen nainen". mtvuutiset.fi. 2019-10-22.
- 8.Meriluoto, Aila. www.kirjasampo.fi.
- 9.Putoavia enkeleitä.
- 10.Elämäkerran kirjoittaja Panu Rajala: "Aila Meriluoto oli sodanjälkeisen nuoruuden elämäntahdon tulkki" – Esikoiskokoelma Lasimaalaus kuvaa nuorison halua mennä eteenpäin ja unohtaa sota. www.satakunnankansa.fi.
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