Sally Salminen

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Sally Salminen in the 1930s.

Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen (born April 25, 1906 in Vårdö , † July 18, 1976 in Copenhagen ) was a Finnish-Swedish author and translator. She is considered one of the most successful authors of Åland literature and is assigned to Finnish-Swedish modernism .

Life

Sally Salminen's father, Hindrik Salminen, was a postman and farmer. She worked in the Åland Islands and Sweden in commercial professions until she emigrated to the United States in 1930 , where she worked as a domestic servant until 1936. After that she first went back to Åland. From 1940 she lived in Denmark . Through her marriage to the painter Johannes Dührkop , she became a Danish citizen in the same year.

In 1936 Sally Salminen published her debut novel Katrina . In it Salminen tells the fictional life story of the farmer's daughter Katrina from Österbotten , who falls in love with the sailor Johan and follows him to his home in Åland . Her hard life as a kätnerin is depicted with no make-up, but also empathetically, with Salminen referring to the social upheavals at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in Åland and criticizing social grievances. The narrative style of the novel is reminiscent of Knut Hamsun's works.

Katrina was printed in large print runs and translated into 21 languages. The novel was first published in German in 1937. The translation was done by Edzard Schaper . The novel made Salminen known in many countries. In the year Katrina was published , she received the Swedish-Finnish Literature Prize for 1936 at a double celebration in Stockholm and Helsinki . One of the reasons for the success was a positive review by the Danish critic Jørgen Bukdahl . In 1943 the material was filmed by Gustaf Edgren .

However, Salminen's later novels received less attention, although they too were translated into several languages.

In 1943 she published the novel Lars Laurila , which describes the growing up of the title hero, a boy from a Finnish-Swedish marriage, on a small island in the Åland archipelago from the age of 5 until he emigrated to Sweden at the age of about 22. Like many of her works, Lars Laurila had a strong autobiographical reference. "It shows how, under the conditions of a simple, intellectually uninspiring life, the character and way of thinking of an inquisitive young person develop, to whom all strength grows from a brooding love for his Åland homeland." The novel was also translated into German in 1952 . Lars Laurila was the first part of a tetralogy that also included the novels Nya land , Små världar and Klyftan och stjärnan .

Salminen's younger sister, Aili Nordgren, was also a writer.

Works

  • 1936: Katrina
  • 1939: Den långa våren
  • 1941: Pålös sand
  • 1943: Lars Laurila
  • 1945: Nya land
  • 1948: Barndomens land
  • 1949: Små världar
  • 1951: Klyftan och stjärnan
  • 1953: Prins Efflam
  • 1960: Spår på jorden
  • 1963: Vid havet
  • 1964: Syyskuun harmaa sade
  • 1966: Upptäcktsresan
  • 1968: Min amerikanska saga
  • 1971: I Danmark
  • 1974: Världen öppnar sig

literature

  • Jørgen Bukdahl: Romanes Art. Sally Salminen . In: Ders .: Mellemkrigstid , Vol. 4: 1935-1940 . Aschehoug, Copenhagen 1945, pp. 124-133.
  • Bärbel Meyer-Dettum: Katrina . In: Kindlers Literature Lexicon . Vol. 12: Yes - Krc . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1974, p. 5199.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Salminen (Sally Alina Ingeborg) b. 1906 in Cai M. Woel: Dansk Forfatterleksikon . Nordiske Landes Bogforlag, Copenhagen 1945
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Salminen, Sally Alina Ingeborg . In: Diether Krywalski (Ed.): Knaurs Lexikon der Weltliteratur . Knaur, Munich 1986. p. 663.
  3. ↑ a b Bärbel Meyer-Dettum: Katrina . In: Kindlers Literature Lexicon . Vol. 12. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1974, p. 5199.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Kurt Schmidt: Salminen, Sally . In: Horst Bien (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Nordeuropean Literaturen , Leipzig 1978. p. 285.
  5. ↑ Verso of the title page of the German edition.
  6. ↑ Jørgen Bukdahl: Romanes Art. Sally Salminen . In: Ders .: Mellemkrigstid , Vol. 4: 1935-1940 . Aschehoug, Copenhagen 1945, pp. 124-133.
  7. ↑ George C. Schoolfield (Ed.): A History of Finland's literature . University of Nebraska Press, 1998. p. 535.
  8. ↑ Salminen, Sally . In Sven G. Winquist: Författare till svenska långfilmer including svensk TV-theater . Proprius, Stockholm 1969.
  9. ^ Finnish National News , accessed May 24, 2012
  10. ↑ School Field, S. 535f.
  11. ↑ Jaakko Ahokas: History of Finnish Literature . Routledge, London 1997. p. 428

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personal data
SURNAME Salminen, Sally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salminen, Sally Alina Ingeborg (full name); Salminen-Dührkop, Sally Alina Ingeborg (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish author
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vårdö
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1976
Place of death Copenhagen