| Birth Name: | Maila Winter |
| Birth Date: | October 17, 1871 |
| Birth Place: | Hartola |
| Death Date: | January 6, 1951 |
| Death Place: | Helsinki |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Language: | Finnish |
| Nationality: | Finnish |
| Genre: | Novel, collection of short stories, drama, collection of speeches and biography |
| Partner: | J. J. Mikkola |
Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871 – January 6, 1951), 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.[1]
She was born in Hartola, the daughter of Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children. Talvio's father died when she was 9 years old.
Her husband was J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893. She died in Helsinki, where she is buried in Hietaniemi Cemetery.[2]