Frans Eemil Sillanpää (born the September 16th 1888 with Hämeenkyrö, Finland - died the June 3rd 1964 with Helsinki) is a Finnish writer, Romance cier and short story writer, follower of the psychological neo-realism. Its principal novel, Holy Misery (1919), evokes the Finnish Civil war.

Biography

F-E Sillanpää is the son small farmers of the west of Finland. After having achieved its schooling with the college of Tampere, it begins studies of biology to the Université of Helsinki in 1908, studies which it will give up in 1913 to write of the articles in the newspaper Uusi suometar . He writes its first novel the Life and the Sun in 1916.

Sillanpää wrote a score of novels or collections of news of which a third was translated into French. Its characters come from the small people of rural Finland: maidservants, sharecroppers or small holders. They undergo their destiny, often a slow forfeiture, with a passive resignation or a serene indifference. The life and a nature evoked in a lyric way will offer to them a few periods of remission and short happiness.

One of its poems, written in 1939, was put in music in 1940 to constitute a patriotic song, the Song of walk of Sillanpää ( Sillanpään marssilaulu ).

It received the Nobel Prize of literature in 1939.

Works translated into French

• Life and the Sun ( Elämä ja aurinko , 1916), Jean-Louis Perret, the New Edition, 1943.

• Holy Misery ( Hurskas kurjuus 1919), Jean-Louis Perret, Rieder, 1928. Republished in the Collection of the Nobel Prize of literature, 1963, with a critical apparatus.
• Hiltu and Ragnar ( Hiltu ja Ragnar 1923), Jean-Luc Moreau, university Presses of Caen, 1995. Republished by blue Ink editor, 2001,
• Close to the ground ( Maan tasalta , 1924), Maurice de Coppet, W. Söderström, 1929.
• Silja or a short destiny ( Nuorena nukkunut 1931), Jean-Louis Perret, Rieder, 1940, republished by editions Open mind, 2000,
• Paavo ( Miehen tie 1932), Lucie Thomas, P.U.F., 1946.
• Of the human beings in the night of summer ( Ihmiset suviyössä 1934), Pierre Chaumelle, the New Edition, 1948

External bonds

1. Analysis of the work of Sillanpää

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