Pentti Holappa
Pentti Holappa ( born August 11, 1927 in Ylikiiminki ) is a Finnish writer.
Life
Holappa is already in his lifetime a classic of Finnish literature. He was chief editor of a newspaper, who owns a bookshop and 1972 Finnish Minister of Culture and Education. In 1950 he made his debut with the poetry collection fool in the mirror. He has written several volumes of poetry, plays, six novels, diaries, essays and newspaper articles. As the only Scandinavian poet Holappa is a poem anthology, Les mots longues, in the prestigious series Poésie Gallimard, Paris, represented. In 1998 he was elected President of the Académie Européenne de Poésie. Even as a translator of French literature into Finnish, he has made a name ( Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Reverdy, Jean -Marie Gustave Le Clézio. ). He lives in France and Finland. In 1998, he won the highest award for Finnish literature, the Finlandia Prize, which is awarded by the Finnish Book Foundation annually. He is president of the Finnish PEN.