Toivo Pekkanen

Toivo Pekkanen was born in Kotka on 10 September 1902, into the poor family of a stonecutter, which had six children. After primary school and two years at a vocational school of metallurgy, he had to work hard before the age of thirteen, first at the harbour and then as a blacksmith's helper at the factory. His first stories appeared in a weekly, and his first book in 1927. Struck later by a stroke, he went on writing. Named an academician in 1955, he died in Copenhagen on 30 May 1957.

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• NovelTehtaan varjossaToivo Pekkanen · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature