author
Ilmari Pimiä
1897–1989
A Finnish poet, visual artist, and drawing teacher, he moved through the energetic literary circles of the 1920s and later wrote with a deep sense of longing for Karelia. His work connects modernist excitement with memory, place, and loss.
2 Audiobooks
Hurmioituneet kasvot : Runoja
by Elina Vaara, Yrjö Jylhä, Olavi Paavolainen, Ilmari Pimiä, Katri Vala, Lauri Viljanen
Näkinkenkä : Runoja
by Ilmari Pimiä
About the author
Born in Kivennapa in 1897 and later dying in Helsinki in 1989, Ilmari Eino Pimiä was a Finnish writer, visual artist, and teacher of drawing.
He is remembered especially as a poet linked with the Tulenkantajat generation of the 1920s. Sources also describe him as a close youth friend of Olavi Paavolainen and note that he took part in founding the Kivennapa artists' society, placing him in a lively circle of young Finnish modernists.
After the wars, his poetry is described as drawing inspiration from the nature of the Karelian Isthmus and giving voice to longing for the landscapes left beyond the border. That mix of modern literary energy and homesick reflection gives his writing a distinctive emotional tone.