Konrad Lehtimäki

Born in Vahto in 1883, Konrad Lehtimäki was a Finnish journalist, writer, and politician. He represented the Social Democratic Party in the Parliament of Finland from 1911 to 1917, and his life was closely tied to the labor movement that shaped much of his writing.

Lehtimäki is remembered as one of the notable prose writers to emerge from Finland's early working-class literary tradition. National biographical sources note that from the 1910s into the late 1920s he published nearly twenty works, and that some of them reached an unusually broad readership through major publishers.

His career and public life were marked by the conflicts of his time. After siding with the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, he was imprisoned in 1918. He died in Turku in 1937, leaving behind a body of work that connected political conviction, social experience, and popular storytelling.