author
Vilho Haanpää
1872–1943
A Finnish writer from northern Ostrobothnia, he published fiction with a strong sense of place and local life. He is also remembered as the uncle of novelist Pentti Haanpää.
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Korven raatajat : Kuvaus torpparioloista
by Vilho Haanpää
About the author
Juho Vilho Haanpää was born on March 13, 1872, in Pulkkila, Finland, and died on May 10, 1943, in Haapavesi. Finnish reference sources identify him as a writer, and Project Gutenberg lists works published under his name.
Though not widely known outside Finland today, he belongs to the literary world that grew around rural northern Finland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is often noted in biographical references as the uncle of the better-known Finnish author Pentti Haanpää.
Because easily accessible online sources about him are brief, many details of his life and career are not well documented in the material I could confirm. What does come through clearly is a modest but real place in Finnish literary history.