author
Toivo Tarvas
1883–1937
A sharp-eyed Finnish storyteller, he became known for bringing early-20th-century Helsinki vividly to life. His fiction is especially remembered for its city scenes, everyday characters, and early use of Helsinki slang.
6 Audiobooks
Legendoja
by Toivo Tarvas
Häviävää Helsinkiä : Novelleja
by Toivo Tarvas
Isä ja tytär : Näytelmä 4:ssä näytöksessä
by Toivo Tarvas
Kohtalon tuulissa : Nykyajan romaani
by Toivo Tarvas
Rakkauden kirous : Romaani
by Toivo Tarvas
Eri tasoilta : Nykyaikainen romaani
by Toivo Tarvas
About the author
Born in Helsinki on March 24, 1883, Armas Toivo Tarvas was a Finnish writer who also published under several pen names, including Harri Kangas, Janne Kreivilä, Otto W. Siilivaara, and T.T-s. He died in Helsinki on December 10, 1937.
Tarvas wrote novels, stories, and short-story collections, and he is particularly associated with portrayals of Helsinki in the early 1900s. He is remembered as an important writer of city life and as one of the early authors to bring Stadin slangi, the local Helsinki slang, into literature.
Later readers have continued to return to his Helsinki-themed work, including stories that look at the city's older past as well as its changing modern streets. His writing offers a vivid window into the language, atmosphere, and everyday life of the capital in a period of transition.