Sally Salminen
Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen ( born April 25, 1906 in Vårdö; † July 18, 1976 in Copenhagen) was a Finland-Swedish author and translator. She is considered one of the most successful authors Åland literature and is assigned to the Finland-Swedish modernism.
Life
Sally Salminen Hindrik Salminens father was a postman and farmer. She worked on the Åland Islands and Sweden in commercial occupations until they emigrated in 1930 to the United States, where she worked as a domestic worker until 1936. After that, they first went back to Åland. From 1940 she lived in Denmark. Through her marriage to the painter Johannes Dührkop she was in the same year Danish citizen.
In 1936 she published her first novel, Katrina. It tells the fictional life story of Salminen farmer's daughter Katrina from Ostrobothnia who falls in love with the sailor Johan and follows him to his home Åland. Your life full of privation as Kätnerin is thereby depicted without makeup, but also sensitive, with Salminen on the social upheavals at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century refers to Åland and criticized social injustice. The narrative style of the novel is reminiscent of Knut Hamsun's works.
Katrina was printed in large numbers and translated into 21 languages. In German language, the novel was first published in 1937. The translation is by Edzard Schaper. The novel made Salminen known worldwide and received in Stockholm and Helsinki literary prizes. As a reason for the success was a positive review of the Danish critic Jørgen Bukdahl. 1943, the substance of Gustaf Edgren was filmed. However, the later novels Salminens less attention, although they have been translated into several languages.
In 1943, she published the novel Lars Laurila, which depicts the growth of the title character, a boy from a Finnish-Swedish marriage, on a small island in the archipelago of the Åland Islands, from the age of 5 until his emigration to Sweden with about 22 years. Like many of her works had Lars Laurila a strong autobiographical reference. " Shown is how it turned out form under the terms of the simple, intellectually stimulating life little character and way of thinking of an inquisitive young people, to whom all power accrues from a brooding love for his Åland home. " The novel was also translated into German in 1952. Lars Laurila was the first part of a tetralogy that also included the novels Nya country, Sma världar and klyftan och Stjärnan.
Salminens younger sister Aili Nordgren was also a writer.