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Kaarlo Sarkia (Kaarlo Teodor Sulin) was born on 11 May, 1902 in Kiikka, Grand Duchy of Finland, is a Finnish poet. Discover Kaarlo Sarkia's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

Popular As Kaarlo Teodor Sulin
Occupation poet, translator
Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 11 May 1902
Birthday 11 May
Birthplace Kiikka, Grand Duchy of Finland
Date of death 16 November, 1945
Died Place Sysmä, Finland
Nationality Finland

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1902

Kaarlo Sarkia (11 May 1902 – 16 November 1945 ) was a Finnish poet and translator who was influenced by romantic poetry.

His poems include motifs like childhood memories, love, landscapes and dreamworld, and in his last collection of poetry also his personal death and mankind's sufferings.

1916

His mother died of tuberculosis in 1916 and Sarkia moved to live with his godmother Hilda Runni.

With a help of his grandparents Sarkia was able to finish the secondary school in Tyrvää.

During his schoolyears, Sarkia got interested in poetry and also became aware of his homosexuality.

Sarkia learned French and German in Tyrvää, where he lived by the local pharmacist whose wife was born in Switzerland.

1923

Sarkia graduated from the secondary school in 1923 and accomplished his military service in the Hennala Garrison in the spring of 1924.

1925

He worked for a year as a tutor in Rantasalmi and entered the University of Helsinki in 1925.

In Helsinki Sarkia lived in cheap accommodation, suffered from poverty and was hospitalized several times for the tuberculosis he caught during the military service.

1926

In 1926 he received a scholarship and made a short trip to Germany.

A year later he began studies at the University of Turku, joining the literary circle of V. A. Koskenniemi.

1929

Sarkia published four collections of poetry between 1929 and 1943.

In addition to his own works, Sarkia was known as a translator of French and Italian poetry.

Sarkia was also a contemporary member of the Finnish literary group Tulenkantajat.

Sarkia never had a permanent home or regular job and he used to spend terms in sanatoriums.

Sarkia died of tuberculosis at the age of 43.

Sarkia was born in the municipality of Kiikka, Satakunta in southwest Finland as an illegitimate child of the maid Aleksandra Sulin.

Sarkia's father was most likely the local carpenter Malakias Korkki.

His first collection, Kahlittu (″Chained″) was released in 1929.

1930

Together with Uuno Kailas, Sarkia was the most prominent Finnish poet of the 1930s.

As Kailas, his poetry also had homosexual themes.

1931

The second collection, Velka elämälle (″The Debt to Life″) in 1931, included the poem Antinous, which dealt with homoerotic love.

Antinous was the lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

The title poem was about love and desertion, dedicated to his mother.

1932

His two first collections did not cause much attention, but Sarkia became known for his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre in 1932.

1933

In December 1933 Sarkia had a job at the university library in Turku, where the chief librarian was the writer Volter Kilpi.

Just a month later, Sarkia tried to commit suicide with an oversdose of barbiturate.

1936

Sarkia's third book, Unen kaivo (″The Well of Dreams″, 1936), was a commercial and critical success.

The collection included the poem Barcarola, which is influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's Die Sonne sinkt.

It has been described as one of his most wonderful poems.

1937

In 1937, Sarkia traveled to Switzerland where he spent several months.

He also visited Rome where Sarkia kept a speech against Hitler and was arrested.

Sarkia never graduated from the universities of Helsinki or Turku.

1943

In the early 1943, Sarkia lived a couple of months in the small village of Sysmä, but moved soon to Helsinki, as the state granted him a pension.

Sarkia also received a monthly payment from his publisher WSOY.

At this time, Sarkia was already seriously ill.

His fourth book, Kohtalon vaaka (″The Scale of Fate″) came out the same year, in the middle of the World War II, when Finland was fighting as an ally of Nazi Germany.

Sarkia did not join the writers who produced patriotic propaganda.

Instead, the collection featured several pacifist and anti-war poems.

As a result, Sarkia was criticized for being unpatriotic.