author
Reino Rauanheimo
1901–1953
A Finnish novelist and publishing editor whose work often focused on everyday life with a sharp social eye. Best known for the award-winning novel Aamusta iltaan, he wrote in the first half of the twentieth century and left behind a compact but notable body of fiction.
2 Audiobooks
Aamusta iltaan : Romaani
by Reino Rauanheimo
Luostarin kasvatti : Kertomus vanhasta Karjalasta
by Reino Rauanheimo
About the author
Born in Nurmes on September 14, 1901, and originally surnamed Järnefelt until 1906, he became known as a Finnish writer and publishing editor. Sources agree that he worked for WSOY as an editor from the 1920s onward, alongside his own literary career.
He published eleven books, mainly novels. His best-known work is Aamusta iltaan, which received a Finnish state literary prize in 1931; modern summaries describe it as a socially observant novel centered on working-class life in Helsinki over the course of a single day.
Though not widely known outside Finland today, his work still circulates through library records and digital editions, and he remains of interest as a writer connected to Finnish literary and publishing life in the early twentieth century. He died on April 21, 1953.