LITERATURE OF FINLAND, Kai Laitinen

Title: Literature of Finland

Writer: Kai Laitinen

Publisher: Otava

Edition: 1994

Pages: 163

Dimension: 19x 11,5x 0,7cm

Cover: Softcover

Language: English

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Call No.: 802/Lai/L/C.1

Status: Available

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Kai Laitinen, former proffesor of Finnish literature at Helsinki Univercity and the Author of this work has been one of the most influential figures in Finnish literary life for several decades. He has acted, inter alia, as the chief literary critic in the 1950s for Helsingin Sanomat, the larges Finnish daily newspaper and as editor-in-chief of Parnasso, the biggest Finnish literary magazine. He has also been a member of many international bodies concerned with literary awards and has published several works dealing with the literature of Finland a well as given lectures on this theme in different parts of the world.