Died 1964-06-03.
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Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "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".
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culture · Finnish writer (1888–1964) · writer · novelist · poet · also Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Frans Sillanpää, Sillanpää
Born 16 September 1888 · Died 3 June 1964 · Q132723
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1948).
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1943· 1 entry
Returned to public life as a bearded old 'Grandpa Sillanpää'
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1941· 1 entry
Sillanpää divorced his wife Anna
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1939· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — 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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1939).
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Sillanpää's wife Sigrid died of pneumonia leaving him with eight children
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Became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relatio
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Sillanpää was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "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
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1938· 1 entry
By Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä, was named after him
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Aleksis Kivi Award (1937).
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1916· 1 entry
Sillanpää married Sigrid Maria Salomäki, whom he had met in 1914
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1914· 1 entry
Sillanpää wrote articles for the newspaper Uusi Suometar
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1913· 1 entry
Sillanpää moved from Helsinki to his old home village and devoted himself to writing
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-09-16.
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