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Väinö Linna was born on 20 December, 1920 in Urjala, Finland, is a Finnish author. Discover Väinö Linna'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 71 years old?

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Occupation Author
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 20 December, 1920
Birthday 20 December
Birthplace Urjala, Finland
Date of death 21 April, 1992
Died Place Tampere, Finland
Nationality Finland

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1874

He was the seventh child of Viktor (Vihtori) Linna (1874–1928) and Johanna Maria (Maija) Linna (1888–1972).

Linna's father, a butcher, died when Linna was only seven years old, thus Linna's mother had to support the entire family by working at a nearby manor.

Despite his background, Linna's interest in literature began early on.

As a child, Linna loved adventure novels which he borrowed from the local library.

1920

Väinö Linna (20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author.

1930

The author's education was, however, limited to six years at a public school which he finished in the mid-1930s.

1938

After working as a lumberjack and a farm hand at the same manor where his mother had worked, Linna moved to Tampere in 1938.

Typical of his generation, the adolescent author-to-be moved from the countryside to a developing city in search of industrial labour which he found at the Finlayson textile mills.

1940

In 1940, Linna was conscripted into the army.

1941

The Second World War had broken out, and for Linna's part it meant participation in the Continuation War (1941–44).

He fought on the eastern front.

In addition to being a squad-leader, he wrote notes and observations about his and his unit's experiences.

Already at this point Linna knew that writing would be his preferred occupation.

However, failure to get the notes published led him to burn them.

In spite of rejection, the idea of a novel, which would depict ordinary soldiers' views on war, would later lead him to write The Unknown Soldier.

After the war, Linna got married and started writing while working at the mills during the day.

Throughout his time at Finlayson, Väinö Linna read avidly.

Such authors as Schopenhauer, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche gained Linna's respect.

Linna later said that Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front had also had a great influence on him.

However, Linna's first two novels Päämäärä and Musta rakkaus sold poorly; he also wrote poetry but did not enjoy success with that either.

1950

The book soon became something of a best-seller, as it sold 175,000 copies in only six months – quite a lot for a Finnish novel in the 1950s.

Early on, the reception of the book was harsh.

In Finland's biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, the critic Toini Havu argued in her review that Linna did not present his characters in a grand historical and ethical context, which she thought was crucial.

Also modernists treated The Unknown Soldier with contempt.

At the time Tuomas Anhava referred to The Unknown Soldier as a "boy's book" because of its action-packed storyline.

Acceptance by the general public was enough to counter the negative criticism in the end.

The novel is now considered both a classic in Finnish literature and a part of the national legacy.

In the mid-1950s, he moved to Hämeenkyrö and began to cultivate crops.

1954

He gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).

Not until the release of The Unknown Soldier (1954) did he rise to fame.

It is evident that at the time there was a distinct social need for a novel that would deal with the war and ordinary people's role in it.

A decade after the peace treaty with the Soviet Union many Finns were ready to reminisce, some even in a critical manner.

The Unknown Soldier satisfied that need completely, as its characters were unarguably more diverse, realistic yet heroic, than those of earlier Finnish war novels.

1955

Both have been adapted to a film format on several occasions; The Unknown Soldier was first adapted into a film in 1955 and Under the North Star in 1968 as Here, Beneath the North Star, both directed by Edvin Laine.

Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region.

1959

In 1959, the first part of Under the North Star was released.

The book was a success and other parts were to follow.

1960

The second part was published in 1960 and the final part in 1963.

The third part of the novel was honoured with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

1964

In 1964, Linna sold the farm and moved back to Tampere.