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A. V. Multia
1889–1980
A Finnish officer turned novelist, he wrote under the name A. V. Multia and drew on everyday life, work, and social change in his fiction. His books include Mökistä maantielle, a novel later made widely available through Project Gutenberg.
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Mökistä maantielle
by A. V. Multia
About the author
Born Akseli Viljam Viljasalo on July 8, 1889, in Keuruu, Finland, he became known to readers by the pen name A. V. Multia. Sources describe him as both an officer and a writer, and also note that he worked on the railways and later as a librarian in Jyväskylä before his literary career became established.
He wrote fiction in Finnish, and his novel Mökistä maantielle is one confirmed example of his work. The surviving source material suggests a writer interested in ordinary people and changing times, which gives his work a grounded, human feel.
He died on February 19, 1980, in Pori. I couldn't confirm a suitable portrait image from the available source pages, so none is included here.