He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1939: for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature, and he is still the only Finn awarded that prize.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born into a peasant family in Hämeenkyrö. Although his parents were poor, they managed to send him to school in Tampere. In 1908 he moved to Helsinki to study medicine. Here his acquaintances included the painter Eero Järnefelt, Jean Sibelius, Juhani Aho and Pekka Halonen.
In 1913 Sillanpää moved from Helsinki to his old home village and devoted himself to writing.
He won international fame for his novel Nuorena nukkunut (The Maid Silja/Fallen Asleep While Young) in 1931.
FransEemil Sillanpää (September 16, 1888 - June 3, 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1939: for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature, and he is still the only Finn awarded that prize.
FransEemil Sillanpää was born into a peasant family in Hämeenkyrö[?].
FransEemilSillanpaa was born on the 16th of September, 1888, at Yla-Satakunta in the Hameenkyro Parish of Finland on a desolate croft of the same name.
Sillanpaa's parents had experienced all the trials and tribulations common to generations of settlers in those parts of Finland.
Sillanpaa acquired at a nearby village shop some stationary of the type favoured by village lads for private correspondence and wrote a short story, which he sent to the editor of a large city paper without much hope of seeing it published.
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