Died 1979-08-26.
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Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.
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culture · Finnish writer (1908–1979) · writer · translator · journalist · novelist · screenwriter · poet · playwright · also Mika Waltari, Mika Toimi Waltari, Kristian Korppi, Leo Rainio, Leo Arne, M. Ritvala
Born 19 September 1908 · Died 26 August 1979 · Q193111
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1960).
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1957· 1 entry
And received an honorary doctorate at the University of Turku in 1970
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Jussi Award for Best Script for Omena putoaa... (1952).
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Won Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1952).
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Aleksis Kivi Award (1947).
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1945· 1 entry
“Satu kuninkaasta jolla ei ollut sydäntä”
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1942· 1 entry
And 6 other Finnish writers visited Germany to attend the Congress of the European Writers' Union in Weimar and wrote yet more favourable coverage; a story goes however that he, being slightly drunk, refused the pocke
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1939· 1 entry
And wrote a mostly favourable article titled Tuntematon Saksa ('Unknown Germany')
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1927· 1 entry
Went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life
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1908· 2 entries
Born 1908-09-19.
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“s historical novels: Journeys: The protagonist goes on journeys in foreign lands, is a”
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