Eeva Joenpelto

Eeva Joenpelto (middle) sitting next to president Urho Kekkonen (left) on Independence Day, 1958.

Eeva Elisabeth Joenpelto (17 June 1921, Sammatti, Finland – 28 January 2004, Lohja, Finland), married name after 1945 Hellemann, was an award-winning Finnish novelist. Her writing is especially remembered for the Lohja tetralogy which depicted strong women. Described as a "productive novelist of monomaniacal intensity",[1] she occasionally wrote under the pseudonyms of Eeva Helle and Eeva Autere. Joenpelto was President of PEN Finland in 1964-67 and worked as an art professor from 1980-85. She was married (until 1975) to Jarl Hellemann, the CEO of Tammi.

Eeva Joenpelto Prize

The Eeva Joenpelto Prize in literature has been awarded by Lohja to honor the city's written heritage. Its recipients have been:

Selected works

  • Seitsemän päivää, under the pseudonym Eeva Helle 1946
  • Tulee sittenkin päivä..., under the pseudonym Eeva Autere 1950
  • Kaakerholman kaupunki, 1950
  • Veljen varjo, 1951
  • Johannes vain, 1952
  • Kivi palaa, 1953
  • Neito kulkee vetten päällä, 1955
  • Missä lintuset laulaa, 1957
  • Ralli, 1959
  • Syyskesä, 1960
  • Kipinöivät vuodet, 1961
  • Naisten kesken, 1962
  • Viisaat istuvat varjossa, 1964
  • Ritari metsien pimennosta, 1966
  • Halusit tai et, 1969
  • Vesissä toinen silmä, [1971
  • Vetää kaikista ovista, 1974 (Lohja series, Part 1)
  • Kuin kekäle kädessä, 1976 (Lohja series, Part 2)
  • Sataa suolaista vettä, 1978 Lohja series, Part 3)
  • Eteisiin ja kynnyksille, 1980 (Lohja series, Part 4)
  • Elämän rouva, rouva Glad, 1982
  • Rikas ja kunniallinen, 1984
  • Jottei varjos haalistu, 1986
  • Ei ryppyä, ei tahraa, 1989
  • Avoin, hellä ja katumaton, 1991
  • Tuomari Müller, hieno mies, 1994
  • Uskomattomia uhrauksia, 2000

Awards

References

  1. Schoolfield, George C. (1998). A History of Finland's Literature. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 201–. ISBN 0-8032-4189-5.

Further reading

External links

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