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Olli Solkio
A Finnish translator and writer who also published under the pen name Olli Solkio, creating fiction in the early 20th century. Her work connects with Finland’s literary and cultural life at a time of major national change.
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Isien teillä
by Olli Solkio
About the author
Born in Sortavala on September 7, 1883, Aino Lyydia Airamo was a Finnish translator and author. She is known to have written under the pseudonym Olli Solkio, the name attached to works such as Isien teillä.
Available biographical sources describe her as educated in Sortavala and Helsinki, and note that in 1906 she was chosen as the first head of the East Karelia folk high school founded in Impilahti. Alongside her own writing, she also worked as a translator, which helps place her within the wider world of Finnish literary culture.
Airamo died in Helsinki on May 13, 1969. Although detailed English-language information about her appears limited, the record that survives shows a writer and translator whose work reached readers under both her own name and the pen name Olli Solkio.