Name Paavo Rintala Role Novelist | Movies Sissit Books Pojat, Faustus | |
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Died August 8, 1999, Kirkkonummi, Finland Parents Aino Amalia Nikula, Otto Adiel Rintala Nominations Nordic Council's Literature Prize, Finlandia Award Similar People Mikko Niskanen, Matti Oravisto, Matti Kassila | ||
Paavo Rintala (born in Viipuri, Finland on 20 September 1930 – died in Kirkkonummi, Finland 8 August 1999) is a Finnish novelist and theologian. He also wrote theatre pieces, radio plays and prose.
Rintala has won the Kirjallisuuden valtionpalkinto Finnish literature prize many times, including in 1956, 1963, 1966, 1972, 1973 and 1991. He won the Finlandia Prize as a Finnish laureate for his 1991 novel Sarmatian Orfeus. He also won the Runeberg Prize (in Finnish Runeberg-palkinto) in 1994. Two of his novels have been adapted to film by Finnish film director Mikko Niskanen. First was the 1958 novel Pojat adapted in 1962 with same title (English title The Boys). The other was the 1963 novel Sissiluutnantti adapted to film as Sissit.
He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
