Oscar Parland

Oscar Parland was born in Kyiv on 20 April 1912, the son of a railway engineer; his mother came from a family of Vyborg, and German and Russian were spoken at home. The family settled in Finland at the end of 1919, and he learned Swedish, his future language as a writer, only at around the age of ten. A specialist in nervous and mental illnesses, he worked from 1947 at the Nickby hospital, in Sipoo, where he was chief physician from 1960 to 1975, and practised art therapy. He edited the posthumous work of his brother Henry. He died in Helsinki in September 1997.

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• NovelThe Enchanted WayDen förtrollade vägenOscar Parland · 1953Literature