Maria Jotuni | |
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![]() Maria Jotuni in 1930 | |
Born | Maria Gustaava Jotuni 9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland |
Died | 30 September 1943 Helsinki, Finland | (aged 63)
Maria Gustaava Jotuni (Haggrén until 1906, [1] Jotuni-Tarkiainen from 1911, born 9 April 1880 [1] Kuopio, died 30 September 1943 in Helsinki) was a Finnish author and a playwright.
Jotuni went to an all-girls school in Kuopio. [2] She graduated in 1900 and planned to become a teacher. In 1900–1904 she studied history and literature at the University of Helsinki. [2] Jotuni met her future husband, the literary critic Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951), in the university, and they got married in 1911. They had two sons: Jukka Tarkiainen and Tuttu Tarkiainen.
She is sometimes considered an early feminist, [3] and according to Jukka's son Kari Tarkiainen, her posthumously published novel Huojuva talo ("Tottering House") was based on her marriage to his grandfather; it depicts the husband as nightmarishly abusive.
She started working as a journalist in a student magazine at the University of Helsinki. Maria Haggrén changed her surname to Jotuni in 1906. "Jotuni" means a giant in Scandinavian mythology. [2] [4] [5] She died of heart disease in Helsinki. [1]
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Maria Jotuni | |
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![]() Maria Jotuni in 1930 | |
Born | Maria Gustaava Jotuni 9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland |
Died | 30 September 1943 Helsinki, Finland | (aged 63)
Maria Gustaava Jotuni (Haggrén until 1906, [1] Jotuni-Tarkiainen from 1911, born 9 April 1880 [1] Kuopio, died 30 September 1943 in Helsinki) was a Finnish author and a playwright.
Jotuni went to an all-girls school in Kuopio. [2] She graduated in 1900 and planned to become a teacher. In 1900–1904 she studied history and literature at the University of Helsinki. [2] Jotuni met her future husband, the literary critic Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951), in the university, and they got married in 1911. They had two sons: Jukka Tarkiainen and Tuttu Tarkiainen.
She is sometimes considered an early feminist, [3] and according to Jukka's son Kari Tarkiainen, her posthumously published novel Huojuva talo ("Tottering House") was based on her marriage to his grandfather; it depicts the husband as nightmarishly abusive.
She started working as a journalist in a student magazine at the University of Helsinki. Maria Haggrén changed her surname to Jotuni in 1906. "Jotuni" means a giant in Scandinavian mythology. [2] [4] [5] She died of heart disease in Helsinki. [1]
Plays:
Novels:
Short stories:
Collection of other works: