Aale Tynni
Eels Maria Tynni - Haavio ( born October 3, 1913 in Kolppana, Ingria, † October 21, 1997 in Helsinki) was a Finnish poet, translator and Olympic champion.
Biography
Eels Tynni came in 1913 as one of seven children of the journalist and the school principal and the teacher Kaapre Tynni Tynni Lilja (born Piipponen ) in Kolppana to the world. Shortly after the October Revolution, the family moved to Finland in 1919 by Ingria and settled in Helsinki. Tynni began in her childhood with writing poems and published them in the school newspaper.
From 1932 to 1936 Tynni studied at the University of Helsinki, where she graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). Two years later she published her first collection of poetry with Kynttiläsydän. After that, they traveled for some time through France and Italy and did not return until the beginning of the outbreak of war back to Finland. 1940 married eels Tynni the church historian Kauko Pirinen, with whom she had three children. She worked as a teacher and procured by the translation of Henrik Ibsen's Brand in 1947 a name as a translator of poetry.
The resulting during the 1940s poems are mostly about love and motherhood and were in Lehtimaja (1946) and published Soiva Metsä (1947). In the book of poems Ylitse lasisten vuorten 1949 based many poems from characters of fairy tales. This work also includes her most famous poem Kaarisilta (Eng. The arch bridge ).
In 1948, eels Tynni to the art competitions of the Olympic Summer Games in London in part. With her poem Hellaan laakeri (German Hellas ' fame), she won here in the discipline Lyrical works the gold medal. In 1950 she was also awarded the Aleksis Kivi - Prize.
1952 appeared the poetry book The Unknown Puu. Some of the poems were inspired by her love for another man, the poet Martti Haavio. Because of their children Tynni yet received their first marriage upright for many years. Only in 1960 did they finally married Haavio, with whom she often worked in the following years. After Haavio died in 1973, she published Tarinain Lähde (1974 ), in which she wrote about the longing for the deceased.
1977 Tynni received an honorary doctorate. In addition to Eeva - Kaarina Kolanen she was honored in 1982 as the first woman from the Finnish President Mauno Koivisto with the honorary title of academician of Art ( Taiteen akateemikko ).
Eels Tynni died in 1997 in Helsinki.