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Veera Roos
1882–1961
A Finnish playwright and translator from Jyväskylä, she wrote stage works rooted in everyday life and helped bring other literature into Finnish. Her surviving work suggests a warm eye for rural settings and spoken drama.
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About the author
Born Veera Armida Juvelius in Jyväskylä in 1882, she later became known as Veera Roos. Finnish reference sources describe her as a playwright and a translator of literature, and note that she died in Jyväskylä in 1961.
She came from the notable Juvelius family, which included several writers and other public figures. That literary background fits well with her own career in writing and translation.
A work now available through Project Gutenberg, Pyhäaamu Anttilan pihalla, shows the kind of writing she is remembered for: a one-act rural play set among ordinary people, with a feel for local life and conversation. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the source pages reviewed, so a profile image has been left blank.