Maria Jotuni
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 Maria Jotuni | |
| Born |
Maria Gustaava Jotuni 9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland |
| Died |
30 September 1943 (aged 63) Helsinki, Finland |
Maria Gustaava Jotuni (Haggrén until 1906,[1] Jotuni-Tarkiainen from 1911, born 9 April 1880[1] Kuopio – 30 September 1943 in Helsinki) was a notable Finnish author and a playwright.
Life
Jotuni went to an all-girls school in Kuopio.[2] She graduated in 1900 and planned to become 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 children: Jukka Tarkiainen and Tuttu Tarkiainen. According to the latter's son Kari Tarkiainen, Jotuni's 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][3][4] She died of heart disease in Helsinki.[1]
Works
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Plays:
- Vanha koti (1910: "The Old Home")
- Miehen kylkiluu (1914: "The Man's Rib")
- Savu-uhri (1915: "Smoke Sacrifice")
- Kultainen vasikka (1918: "The Golden Calf")
- Tohvelisankarin rouva (1924: "The Hen-Pecked Husband's Wife")
- Olen syyllinen (1929: "I am Guilty")
- Kurdin prinssi (1932: "The Kurd Prince")
- Klaus, Louhikon herra (1942: "Klaus, Master of Louhikko")
Novels:
- Arkielämää (1909: "Ordinary Life")
- Huojuva talo (1936, published 1963 posthumously. Depicts contemporary literary ideas, realism and Tolstoyism. Adapted for the Finnish stage by Maaria Koskiluoma in 1983; Koskiluoma's stage adaptation was translated into English as Tottering House by Douglas Robinson for the Frank Theatre in Minneapolis in 1994.)
- Äiti ja poika. Elämän hiljaisina hetkinä (1965: "Mother and Son: In Life's Quiet Moments")
- Norsunluinen laulu (1947, posthumous: "Ivory Song")
- Jäähyväiset (1949, posthumous: "Farewell").
Short stories:
- Suhteita (1905: "Relationships")
- Rakkautta (1907: "Love")
- Kun on tunteet (1913: "Since There Are Feelings")
- Martinin rikos (1914: "Martin's Crime")
- Jussi ja Lassi (1921: "Jussi and Lassi")
- Tyttö ruusutarhassa (1927: "The Girl in the Rose Garden")
Collection of other works:
- Kootut teokset I–IV (1930: "Collected Works I-IV")
- Valitut teokset (1954: "Selected Works")
- Maria Jotunin aforismit (1959: "MJ's Aphorisms")
- Novellit ja muuta proosaa I–II (edited by Irmeli Niemi, Otava, 1980: "Short Stories and Other Prose, I-II")
- Näytelmät (edited by Irmeli Niemi. Otava, 1981: "Plays")
- Kun on tunteet, Tyttö ruusutarhassa ynnä muita novelleja edited by Irmeli Niemi, SKS, 1999, 262 pages, ISBN 951-746-125-9 ("Since There Are Feelings, The Girl in the Rose Garden, and Other Short Stories")
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.dr.dk/php/drmu/forfatteratlas/svt.php?mode=writer&page=about&id=128&last=128 information in English (there is a tab that when you press it, it will turn to English version)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jotuni.htm Finnish literature site
- ↑ http://www.koulut.kuopio.fi/Koulu125/1897/Mjotuni.htm education site from Kuopio (in Finnish)
- ↑ http://tuhannettunteet.kuopio.fi/main.asp?sid=16&sivu=31&kpl=2&o=31 literature site from Kuopio (in Finnish)
External links
- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jotuni.htm Literature page in English about Jotuni
- http://home.c2i.net/amd/finwomen/jotuni.htm Another page about Jotuni
- http://www.teatteri.org/theatre/nevala.htm Finnish theatre site about Jotuni
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