Pirkko Saisio

Pirkko Saisio ( born April 16, 1949 in Helsinki) is Finnish author and actress. She was 2003 winner of the doped with 26,000 euros Finlandia Prize for her prose work Punainen erokirja ( "The letter goodbye "). In 2007 she received the most important cultural award of Finland, the medal Pro Finlandia. It also publishes under the pseudonym Eva wine and Jukka Larsson. She is also a professor of dramaturgy.

Life

Pirkko Saisio comes from a communist embossed parents that their Christian values ​​but also taught to the extent that they initially wanted to study theology after graduating from high school in 1967, but that would not have been easy at that time in Finland as a woman. So she took after a few detours in 1971, first acting lessons and had her first engagement in 1975 at the Stadttheater in Rovaniemi, but at the same time began to write. Her debut she made in 1975 with the novel Elämänmeno in which the working-class milieu of Helsinki from the perspective of a young woman describes. This topic - Women in konfliktträchtigem city environment - they remained arrested later. Your work as a writer, however, is also from the perspective of fine art illuminated: Your novels are often determined by certain techniques that are applied in the theater, such as the dominance of the dialogues, or the immediate juxtaposition of the protagonists. A typical example is the Roman Theater kainic tytär of 1984, in which Anna falls in love with her ​​piano teacher.

For the stage she wrote " Tunnottomuus " ( " numbness " ), which premiered at the Finnish National Theatre in 2003, directed it led itself The piece was very well received by the critics, and in 2004 the Finnish contribution to the " Nordic Drama Award".

Pirkko Saisio is married with a three- year younger actor Harri Hyttinen. Their daughter Elsa is also an actress.

Source

Ice water, Journal of Literature; Finland special, herausg. by Joachim Gerdes, Dagmar Mißfeldt, Jörg Busch Ridder, 2nd edition 1999, ice -Verlag, Vechta, ISBN 3924143153