Maila Talvio
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| birth_date = October 17, 1871
| birth_place = Hartola
| death_date = January 6, 1951
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Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871 – January 6, 1951), was a Finnish writer. Talvio was a leading Finnish writer on the temperance question and several of her works were translated into Swedish and other languages.
She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=8990 |title=Nomination Database|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=2017-04-19}}
Life
She was born in Hartola, the daughter of Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children. Talvio's father died when she was 9 years old.
Her husband was J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893. She died in Helsinki, where she is buried in Hietaniemi Cemetery.{{Cite web|url=https://www.helsinginseurakunnat.fi/material/attachments/hautausmaat/hietaniemi/w8GZkM0y7/Hietaniemen_merkittavia_vainajia.pdf|title=Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä|access-date=27 August 2016}}
Books
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*Haapaniemen keinu, 1895
- Nähtyä ja tunnettua, 1896
- Aili, novel. 1897
- Kaksi rakkautta, novel. 1898
- Suomesta pois, 1899
- Johan Ludvig Runebeg, 1900
- Kansan seassa, novel. 1900
- Pimeän pirtin hävitys, novel. 1901
- Rumaa ja kaunista, 1901
- Peter Wieselgren, 1902
- Juha Joutsia, novel. 1903
- Muuan äiti, 1904
- Savipäiviltä, 1904
- Kauppaneuvoksen kuoltua, 1905
- Louhilinna, novel. 1906
- Eri teitä, 1908
- Puheita, 1908
- Anna sarkoila, 1910
- Tähtien alla, novel. 1910
- Kirjava keto, 1911
- Elinan häät, 1912
- Hämähäkki ja muita kertomuksia, 1912
- Kun meidän kaivosta vesi loppui, 1913
- Talonhuijari, 1913
- Yölintu, novel. 1913
- Huhtikuun-manta, 1914
- Elämänleikki ynnä muita puheita maalaisille, 1915
- Lempiäniemen tyttäret, 1915
- Niniven lapset, novel. 1915
- Elämän kasvot, novel. 1916
- Kultainen lyyra, 1916
- Kootut teokset 1–8, 1917–26
- Silmä yössä, novel. 1917
- Näkymätön kirjanpitäjä, collection of short stories. 1918
- Kurjet, novel. 1919
- Yötä ja aamua, 1919
- Valkea huvila, 1920
- Kihlasormus, novel. 1921
- Kirkonkellot, novel. 1922
- Viimeinen laiva, 1922
- Opin sauna, novel. 1923
- Sydämet, collection of short stories. 1924
- Hiljentykäämme, 1929
- Itämeren tytär, 1929–36 : Kaukaa tullut (1929); Hed-ulla ja hänen kosijansa (1931); Hopealaiva (1936)
- Ne 45 000, 1932
- Leipäkulta, 1934
- Millaista parantolassa on, 1935
- Terveisiä, 1936
- Itämeren tytär, 1940 (trilogy)
- Linnoituksen iloiset rouvat, 1941
- Rukkaset ja kukkaset, 1947
- Lokakuun morsian, 1948
- Juhlavalkeat, 1948
- Rukkaset ja kukkaset, 1947
- Kootut teokset i-xiii, 1951
- Valitut teokset, 1953
- Linnoituksen iloiset rouvat, 1982
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Awards
- Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto (1936)
- Aleksis Kiven kirjallisuuspalkinto (1940)
Notes
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References
External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Maila Talvio}}
- {{Gutenberg author |id=39128 |name=Maila Talvio}}
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Category:People from Hartola, Finland
Category:People from Mikkeli Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Category:Writers from Päijät-Häme
Category:Finnish women writers
Category:Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery
Category:Finnish temperance activists
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