Paavo Haavikko

Paavo Haavikko was born in Helsinki on 25 January 1931, the son of a bookbinder who later went into the import trade. He left the Kallio co-educational school in 1951 and published his first book of verse the same year. He married the writer Marja-Liisa Vartio in 1955. He wrote more than seventy books, poems, novels, plays, essays and two opera libretti, by his own count one every eight months, and founded the publishing house Art House. He received the Neustadt Prize in 1984 and the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1993, and died in Helsinki on 6 October 2008.

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• PoetryThe Winter PalaceTalvipalatsiPaavo Haavikko · 1959Literature