Jarl Hemmer

Who was Jarl Hemmer?

Jarl Robert Hemmer was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author from Vaasa, Finland where he was born into a wealthy family. His first collection of poems was called Rösterna and it was published in 1914. He made his breakthrough in 1922 with another collection of epic poetry called Rågens rike. He got The Great Nordic Novel Prize for En man och hans samvete, a book about the Finnish Civil War, published in 1931. Inwardly troubled, he experienced several religious crises and finally committed suicide.