Eeva-Liisa Manner

Playwright, Author

1921 – 1995

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Who was Eeva-Liisa Manner?

Eeva-Liisa Manner, Finnish poet, playwright and translator. She was born in Helsinki but spent her youth in Vyborg. Manner started as a poet in 1944. From her breakthrough collection of poems, Tämä matka she has been seen as one of the most influential modernists in postwar Finland.

Eeva-Liisa Manner wrote over fifteen original collections of poems, plays for theater and radio, novels and short prose. She translated widely contemporary and classic literature, including names like William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Hermann Hesse, and Franz Kafka.

Her work has been translated to many European languages. Translation of Manners Selected Poems in English was published in 1997.

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Born
Dec 5, 1921
Helsinki
Nationality
  • Finland
Profession
Died
1995
Tampere

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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