Occupation Writer Name Maila Talvio Role Writer | Nationality Finland Partner J.J. Mikkola | |
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Genre Novel,collection of short stories,drama,collection of speeches and biography Died January 6, 1951, Helsinki, Finland | ||
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Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871, Hartola – January 6, 1951, Helsinki), was a Finnish writer. Talvio was a leading Finnish writer on the temperance question and several of her works were translated into Swedish and other languages. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
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Life
Her parents were Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children. Talvio's father died when Maila was 9 years old.
Her husband was professor J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893. She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
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