Eeva-Liisa Manner
Illustration — Eeva-Liisa Manner in 1963. Eeva-Liisa Manner (5 December 1921 – 7 July 1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright and translator.
Eeva-Liisa Manner

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- Born
- 1921. · Helsinki.
- Died
- 1995. · Tampere.
- Nationality
- Finland.
- Occupation
- linguist, translator, poet, writer and playwright.
- Fields
- poetry, theatre and translation.
- Honours
- Thanks for the Book Award, Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland and Aleksis Kivi Award.
- Languages
- Finnish.
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Illustration — Eeva-Liisa Manner in 1963. Eeva-Liisa Manner (5 December 1921 – 7 July 1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright and translator.
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The recorded working language is Finnish. The field of work recorded is poetry, theatre and translation. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are modernism and poetry. Places of work recorded in the authority are Tampere, Helsinki and Benigno Aquino III. Distinctions recorded are Thanks for the Book Award, Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland and Aleksis Kivi Award.
She was born in Helsinki, 5 December 1921, but spent her youth in Vyborg (Viipuri). Manner started as a poet in 1944 with Mustaa ja punaista ("Black and Red"). From her breakthrough collection of poems, Tämä matka ("This Journey", 1956) she was seen as one of the most influential modernists in post-war Finland. Manner wrote over fifteen original collections of poems, plays for theater and radio, novels and short prose. She translated widely in both contemporary and classic literature, including names like William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Hermann Hesse, and Franz Kafka. Her work has been translated to many European languages. Translation of Manner's Selected Poems in English was published in 1997, and the novel Girl on Heaven's Pier in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press. Regarding her youth, she said:— The war years shadowed my youth. I was seventeen when the Russian planes started bombarding my home town of Wiborg on 30 November 1939, damaging it badly. At armistice, Wiborg had to be yielded, it remained behind the border – an endless source of nostalgia for one who had a catlike, persevering fondness for homestead. Even as a ten-year-old, I had spine-chilling dreams about the destruction of Wiborg, and from those times onwards I have been haunted by reflections about the nature and mystery of time. I believe that we have a false conception of time; everything has already happened somewhere in an unknown dimension. She died 7 July 1995 in Tampere.

Photograph of the Finnish poet and playwright Eeva-Liisa Manner (middle) at the rehearsal of her play Poltettu oranssi. To her left, the director Lisbeth Landefort; to her right, the actor Veikko Sinisalo.
Esa Sala / Helsingin Sanomat · http: hs.mediadelivery.fi/img/1920/590ecd5684d34ecf940aa7a8adf8899c.jpg

Photograph of the Finnish writer Eeva-Liisa Manner.
Anonymous Unknown author / Aamulehti · http: hs.mediadelivery.fi/img/1920/d6422849de68c3caa87b678c6eb6a6a2.jpg
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1921
Eeva-Liisa Manner born at Helsinki.
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Eeva-Liisa Manner died at Tampere.
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Eeva-Liisa Manner received Thanks for the Book Award, Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland and Aleksis Kivi Award. Recorded as linguist, translator, poet, writer and playwright.
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