Väinö Linna

Nationality

Finnish

Description

Väinö Linna (pronunciation ) (20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author. He gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).

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Gender

Male

The best books of all time by Väinö Linna

  1. 684 . The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna

    The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is author Väinö Linna's first major novel and his other major work besides Under the North Star. Published in 1954, it is a story about the Continuation War...