Lauri Viita
Encyclopedia
Lauri Viita was a poet hailing from the Pispala
district of Tampere
, Finland
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Pispala
Pispala is a city district 2.5 km from the centre of Tampere, Finland. It is located on the northern slope of Pispalanharju, the highest esker in Finland....
district of Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
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Selected works
- Betonimylläri (poems, 1947)
- Kukunor (a poetic fairytale, 1949)
- Moreeni (a novel, 1950)
- Käppyräinen (poems, 1954)
- Suutarikin, suuri viisas (poems, 1961)
- Entäs sitten, Leevi (a novel, 1965)