author
Olli Wuorinen
1842–1917
A Finnish poet and translator from Uukuniemi, he wrote under the pen names Olli Wuorinen and Olli A. Wuorinen. His verse and translations helped carry 19th-century Finnish literary culture into print for new readers.
2 Audiobooks
Sepitelmiä: Runon-kokeita
by Olli Wuorinen
Salmelan heinätalkoot
by Olli Wuorinen
About the author
Born Olof Berg in Uukuniemi on February 28, 1842, he became known by the pen names Olli Wuorinen and Olli A. Wuorinen. He was a Finnish poet and translator, and some sources also note that he used the forms O. Wrn and Olli Vuorinen.
His surviving body of work includes poetry and literary pieces that were widely preserved in public-domain collections, which suggests a writer with a steady place in Finnish print culture of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Today, readers can still find his work in archives and audiobook libraries, where his poems and shorter texts continue to circulate.
He died in Uukuniemi on January 10, 1917. Although he is not widely known outside Finland today, his work remains a small but lasting part of Finnish literary history.