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Onni W. (Onni Wilhelm) Arima
1865–1910
A Finnish journalist and writer whose life was cut short in 1910, he wrote with a feel for everyday people and the social world around them. His surviving work offers a glimpse of Finnish literary life at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Vanhanpojan huomioita
by Onni W. (Onni Wilhelm) Arima
About the author
Born Onni Wilhelm Brummer in 1865, he later became known as Onni W. Arima. Finnish reference sources identify him as a journalist and writer, and note that he wrote in Finnish.
A short biographical record on the Finnish Wikipedia says he worked in the press and was, for a brief time in early 1910, an editor for the newspaper Suomalainen Työväenliitto before illness led to his hospitalization. Library and authority records also connect him with the surname Brummer and confirm his lifespan as 1865–1910.
For modern readers, Arima is best known through the work Vanhanpojan huomioita, which remains available in the public domain through Project Gutenberg. Although relatively little detailed information about his life is easy to confirm online, the records that do survive place him among Finnish literary and journalistic figures of his era.