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Henrik Tikkanen

Died in 1984

Henrik Tikkanen was born in Helsinki on 9 September 1924, the son of the architect Toivo Tikkanen and grandson of the art historian J. J. Tikkanen. Without artistic training, he was already drawing for the press as a teenager. A columnist and cartoonist at Hufvudstadsbladet from 1947 to 1967, then at Helsingin Sanomat, and an avowed pacifist, he received the Eino Leino Prize in 1975. Married for the second time in 1963 to the novelist Märta Cavonius, he died in Espoo on 19 May 1984.

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