Maila Talvio
Finnish writer
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| Intro | Finnish writer | ||
| A.K.A. | Maila Mikkola Maila Winter | ||
| A.K.A. | Maila Mikkola Maila Winter | ||
| Places | Finland | ||
| was | Writer | ||
| Work field | Literature | ||
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| Birth | 17 October 1871, Hartola | ||
| Death | 6 January 1951Helsinki (aged 79 years) | ||
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Biography
Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871, Hartola – January 6, 1951, Helsinki), was a Finnish writer. Talvio was a leading Finnish writer on the temperance question and several of her works were translated into Swedish and other languages.
Parents were Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children. Talvio's father died when Maila was 9 years old.
Her husband was professor J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893. She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
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- Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto (1936)
- Aleksis Kiven kirjallisuuspalkinto (1940)