Maria Gustaava Jotuni was a notable Finnish

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 author

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 and a playwright

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Life

Jotuni went to a girl school in Kuopio. She graduated in 1900 and planned on becoming a teacher. In 1900-1904 she studied history and literature at the University of Helsinki. Jotuni met her future husband, Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951) in the university, and they got married in 1911. They also got two children: Jukka Tarkiainen and Tuttu Tarkiainen. She started working as a journalist in student magazine of University of Helsinki. Maria Haggrén changed her surname to Jotuni in 1906. "Jotuni" means a giant

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 in Scandinavian mythology. She died because of heart disease. That happened in Helsinki.

Works

Plays:

• Vanha koti (1910)
• Miehen kylkiluu (1914)
• Savu-uhri (1915)
• Kultainen vasikka (1918)
• Tohvelisankarin rouva (1924)
• Olen syyllinen (1929)
• Kurdin prinssi (1932)
• Klaus, Louhikon herra (1942)

Novels:

• Arkielämää (1909)
• Huojuva talo (1936, published 1963 posthumously). Depicts the contemporary literal ideas, realism and Tolstoyism.
• Äiti ja poika. Elämän hiljaisina hetkinä (1965)
• Norsunluinen laulu (1947, posthumous)
• Jäähyväiset (1949, posthumous).

Short stories:

• Suhteita (1905)
• Rakkautta (1907)
• Kun on tunteet (1913)
• Martinin rikos (1914)
• Jussi ja Lassi (1921)
• Tyttö ruusutarhassa (1927)

Collection of other works:

• Kootut teokset I–IV (1930)
• Valitut teokset (1954)
• Maria Jotunin aforismit (1959)
• Novellit ja muuta proosaa I–II, edited by Irmeli Niemi, Otava, 1980
• Näytelmät, edited by Irmeli Niemi. Otava, 1981.
• Kun on tunteet, Tyttö ruusutarhassa ynnä muita novelleja edited by Irmeli Niemi, SKS, 1999, 262 pages, ISBN 951-746-125-9

External links

• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jotuni.htm Literature page in English about Jotuni
• http://home.c2i.net/amd/finwomen/jotuni.htm Another page about Jotuni
• http://www.teatteri.org/theatre/nevala.htm Finnish theatre site about Jotuni