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Anselm Hollo (Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo) was born on 12 April, 1934 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish poet and translator. Discover Anselm Hollo'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 79 years old?
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Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo |
Occupation |
Poet and translator |
Age |
79 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
Born |
12 April, 1934 |
Birthday |
12 April |
Birthplace |
Helsinki, Finland |
Date of death |
2013 |
Died Place |
Boulder, Colorado, United States |
Nationality |
Finland
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He is a member of famous poet with the age 79 years old group.
Anselm Hollo Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Anselm Hollo's Wife?
His wife is Josephine Clare
Jane Dalrymple
Family |
Parents |
Juho August Hollo Iris Walden |
Wife |
Josephine Clare
Jane Dalrymple |
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Children |
3 |
Anselm Hollo Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Anselm Hollo worth at the age of 79 years old? Anselm Hollo’s income source is mostly from being a successful poet. He is from Finland. We have estimated Anselm Hollo's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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His father, Juho August Hollo (1885–1967) — who liked to be known as "J. A." Hollo — was professor of pedagogy at the University of Helsinki, an essayist, and a major translator of literature into Finnish.
His mother was Iris Antonina Anna Walden (1899–1983), a music teacher and daughter of organic chemist Paul Walden.
He lived for eight years in the United Kingdom and had three children, Hannes, Kaarina, and Tamsin, with his first wife, poet Josephine Clare.
Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (12 April 1934 – 29 January 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator.
He was a permanent resident in the United States from the late 1960s until his death.
At the time of his death, he resided in Boulder, Colorado with his second wife, artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo.
In the 1960s Hollo lived in London and worked at the Finnish section of BBC World Service.
One of his tasks there was to write radio dramas in Finnish, together with another Finnish poet, Matti Rossi.
Around this time he was also beginning to make a name for himself as a poet in the English language.
In 1965, Hollo performed at the "underground" International Poetry Incarnation, London.
Also in the same year, the first customer of the Indica Bookshop, a certain Paul McCartney, is known to have bought, among other things, the book & it is a song by Anselm Hollo the day before the bookshop was officially opened.
He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January 2013.
Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the United Kingdom and in the United States, with a style strongly influenced by the American beat poets.
Paavo Anselm Aleksis Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland.
Since 1985, he taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where he held the rank of Full Professor.
Several of his poems have been set into music by pianist and composer Frank Carlberg.
In 2001, poets and critics associated with the SUNY Buffalo POETICS list elected Hollo to the honorary position of "anti-laureate", in protest at the appointment of Billy Collins to the position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Hollo translated poetry and belles-lettres from Finnish, German, Swedish, and French into English.
He was one of the early translators of Allen Ginsberg into German and Finnish.
Hollo taught creative writing in eighteen different institutions of higher learning, including SUNY Buffalo, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Hollo became ill during the summer of 2012 and had brain surgery.
Hollo died from post-operative pneumonia on 29 January 2013 at the age of 78.