Uuno Kailas Explained

Uuno Kailas
Birth Date:29 March 1901
Birth Place:Heinola, Finland
Nationality:Finnish
Death Place:Nice, France
Occupation:Poet, author, translator
Movement:Tulenkantajat

Uuno Kailas, born Frans Uno Salonen (29 March 1901 – 22 March 1933) was a Finnish poet, writer, and translator. Together with Kaarlo Sarkia, Kailas was the most prominent Finnish poet of the 1930s.[1]

Life

Kailas was born in Heinola. After his mother's death, the boy received a strict religious upbringing from his grandmother. He studied in Heinola and occasionally in the University of Helsinki. In 1919, he took part in the Aunus expedition, where his close friend Bruno Schildt was killed.

Kailas' criticism and translations were published in Helsingin Sanomat. His first collection of poetry was Tuuli ja tähkä in 1922.

Kailas served in the army from 1923 until 1925. In 1929, he was hospitalized due to schizophrenia, and he was also diagnosed with tuberculosis. He died in Nice, France in 1933, and was buried in Helsinki.

Works

Poetry

Short stories

Translations

Literature

Notes and References

  1. Book: Balakian. Anna . 2008. The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages. Amsterdam. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 601. 978-963-05389-5-4.