Juhani Siljo

Juhani Siljo
Portrait of Juhani Siljo by Pekka Halonen, 1916.
Born	(1888-05-03)3 May 1888 Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died	6 May 1918(1918-05-06) (aged 30) Tampere, Finland
Cause of death	Killed in action

Juhani Siljo (3 May 1888 – 6 May 1918) was a Finnish poet and translator.

Siljo was born as Johan Alarik Sjögren in Oulu.^[1] He completed the Oulun Lyseon Lukio upper secondary school in 1907,^[2] and started studies in the University of Helsinki at the same year, but never graduated, instead he focused on writing.^[1] He wrote poems, essays and translated authors like Novalis, Friedrich Schiller, Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Baudelaire.^[1]

Siljo also worked as an editor in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and the periodical Valvoja. From 1915 to 1916 he worked as a library assistant in Jyväskylä.^[1]

Siljo was on the side of the White Guards in the Finnish Civil War. He was wounded and captured by the Red Guards in a battle in Orivesi. He died in a military hospital in Tampere after the Battle of Tampere had ended in the victory of the Whites.^[1]

Selected works

Poetry

• Runoja (WSOY 1910)
• Maan puoleen (1914)
• Selvään veteen (Otava 1919)

Others

• Rajankäyntejä : Esseitä kirjallisuudesta 1910-1917 (Essays on literature) (Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura 1991)
• Seppelöity : murheellinen komedia (Play) (WSOY 1918)

References

1. Liukkonen, Petri. "Juhani Siljo". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014.
2. "Juhani Siljo". Pakkala - kirjailijatietokanta. Oulu City Library. Archived from the original on 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2014-10-13.

External links

• Works by Juhani Siljo at Project Gutenberg