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Pentti Holappa

Finnish poet, writer and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pentti Holappa
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Pentti Vihtori Holappa (11 August 1927 – 10 October 2017) was a Finnish poet, writer and politician.[1] Born in Ylikiiminki to a relatively poor family of modest means, he held numerous jobs before becoming a political journalist and eventually obtaining a government post.[2] He was self-educated, but produced around fifteen volumes of poetry, as well as several novels and essays. He also worked as a translator; among the poets and authors whose work he translated into Finnish are Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Reverdy, and J. M. G. Le Clézio. He received the Finlandia Prize in 1998 for his novel Ystävän muotokuva: Portrait of a Friend.

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Pentti Holappa in the late 1950s

Between February and October 1972, Holappa was Minister of Culture and Education in the Paasio II Cabinet representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland.[3]

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Bibliography

  • Long Words: Poems 1950–1994 (1997)
  • Ystävän muotokuva: Portrait of a Friend

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