Eels Tynni
Aale Maria Tynni-Haavio (born October 3, 1913 in Kolppana , Ingermanland , Russian Empire , † October 21, 1997 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish poet , translator and Olympic champion .
biography
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Aale Tynni was born in Kolppana in 1913 as one of seven children of the journalist and school director Kaapre Tynni and the teacher Lilja Tynni (née Piipponen). In 1919, shortly after the October Revolution , the family moved from Ingermanland to Finland and settled in Helsinki. Tynni began writing poetry as a child and published it in the school newspaper.
From 1932 to 1936 Tynni studied at the University of Helsinki , which she graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). Two years later she published her first collection of poems, Kynttiläsydän . She then traveled for some time through France and Italy and did not return to Finland until the outbreak of war. In 1940 Aale Tynni married the church historian Kauko Pirinen , with whom she had three children. She worked as a teacher and made a name for herself as a translator of poems by translating Henrik Ibsen's Brand in 1947.
The poems composed during the 1940s are mostly about love and motherhood and were published in Lehtimaja (1946) and Soiva metsä (1947). In the volume of poetry Ylitse vuorten lasisten from 1949, many poems are based on characters from fairy tales. This work also contains her best-known poem Kaarisilta ( Eng . The Arch Bridge ).
In 1948 Aale Tynni took part in the art competitions at the Summer Olympics in London . With her poem Hellaan laakeri ( Eng . Hellas' fame ) she won the gold medal in the discipline of lyric works . In 1950 she was also awarded the Aleksis Kivi Prize .
In 1952 the volume of poetry Tuntematon Puu was published . Some of the poems were inspired by her love for another man, the poet Martti Haavio . Because of her children, Tynni maintained her first marriage for many years. It wasn't until 1960 that she finally married Haavio, with whom she often worked in the following years. After Haavio died in 1973, she published Tarinain lähde (1974), in which she wrote about longing for the deceased.
In 1977 Tynni received an honorary doctorate. In addition to Eeva-Kaarina Kolanen , she was the first woman to be awarded the honorary title of Academic of Art (Taiteen akateemikko) by the Finnish President Mauno Koivisto in 1982.
Aale Tynni died in Helsinki in 1997.
Works
- 1938: Kynttiläsydän ,
- 1940: Vesilintu
- 1943: lame matkamies
- 1946: Lehtimaja
- 1947: Soiva metsä
- 1949: Ylitse vuorten lasisten
- 1952: Tuntematon puu ,
- 1953: Kerttu ja Perttu ja muut talon lapset
- 1954: Kissa liukkaalla jäällä ja muita satuja
- 1954: Torni virrassa
- 1954: Vieraana vihreällä saarella
- 1956: Heikin salaisuudet
- 1957: Tuhat laulujen vuotta
- 1958: Yhdeksän kaupunkia
- 1961: Maailmanteatteri ,
- 1965: Muuttohaukat
- 1967: Balladeja ja romansseja
- 1968: loads paratiisi
- 1969: Pidä rastaan laulusta kiinni
- 1974: Tarinain lame
- 1978: Olen vielä kaukana
- 1987: Vuodenajat
- 1990: Inkeri, Inkerini
- 1991: Rautamarskin aika
literature
- Yrjö Oinonen: Eels Tynni. 1946
- Ritva Raini (ed.): Miten kirjani ovat syntyneet. 1969
- Bo Carpelan (Ed.): A Way to Measure Time. 1992
- George C. Schoolfield (Ed.): A History of Finland's Literature. 1998
Web links
- Biography at kirjasto.sci.fi ( Memento from February 24, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tynni, eels |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tynni-Haavio, Eels Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish poet, translator and Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolppana , Ingermanland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1997 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |