author
Eero Sissala
1851–1909
A Finnish merchant who turned to fiction, he published novels and stories in the late 1880s and 1890s under the pen name Eero Sissala. His work belongs to a formative period in Finnish-language literature and still survives through library and public-domain collections.
2 Audiobooks
Munkkiniemen Elsa
by Eero Sissala
Heikki Helmikangas
by Eero Sissala
About the author
Born Erik Helin in Liminka on March 10, 1851, he wrote under the name Eero Sissala. Finnish reference sources describe him as a merchant and writer, and note that he published his work mainly around the turn from the 1880s to the 1890s.
Sissala is remembered today through bibliographic and literary reference records, as well as digitized editions of his books. Surviving catalog entries show titles including Heikki Helmikangas and Munkkiniemen Elsa, which have helped keep his writing accessible to later readers.
He died in Vaasa on April 18, 1909. I couldn’t confirm a suitable portrait image from the available source pages, so no profile image is included here.