Eeva-Liisa Manner

Eeva -Liisa Manner ( born December 5, 1921 in Helsinki, † July 7, 1995 in Tampere ) was a Finnish poet and translator. It is one of the pioneers of Finnish modernism of the postwar period.

Life

Manners mother died one day after her birth, she grew up with her grandparents. . Men lived alone and withdrawn. She was interested in both the mythology of the ancient world as well as for psychology and philosophy.

Works

Mannerheim had her breakthrough with her ​​work Tämä matka ( "This journey " ) in 1956. Tämä matka The book was instrumental in establishing the modern notation and lyrics in Finland and was the first modernist work that reached a large audience. Men wrote a total of several collections of poems, plays and prose, plus she has worked as a translator. In her poetry a very Finnish nature image belong to the external reality of light, water and forest as well as the animals and plants living in its vastness and solitude of Finland. She has, inter alia, Works of William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka translated into Finnish.

Awards

Manner received many honors for her comprehensive work as a writer and translator. She was, for example, seven times the Finnish State Prize, the most important literary award in the country given.

Expenditure

  • The world is a seal of my senses. Translation by Ingrid Schnellbach copra and Stefan Moster. Heiderhoff Publisher 1996.
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