author
Oskari Hynninen
1865–1906
A Finnish teacher and writer who brought the outdoors vividly onto the page, he wrote under the pen name Oskari Hynninen. His work is closely linked with nature, hunting, and everyday life in the Finnish countryside.
1 Audiobook
Metsolassa
by Oskari Hynninen
About the author
Karl Oskar Harald Hynén (December 29, 1865 – May 17, 1906) was a Finnish teacher and writer who also used the pen name Oskari Hynninen. He is remembered as a schoolteacher as well as a man of letters, and sources describe him as having worked at least in Kestilä folk school.
His surviving public profile is modest, but his writing has lasted. The book Metsolassa, available through Project Gutenberg, is associated with his pen name and reflects a strong interest in the natural world, especially the rhythms of the Finnish landscape and life connected to it.
Because he died quite young, at 40, his body of work appears limited, but that also gives his writing a distinct sense of time and place. For listeners drawn to older Finnish literature, he offers a glimpse of rural life and nature writing from the turn of the twentieth century.