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Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)

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Born
September 16, 1888
Died
June 3, 1964
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birth year
1888

About Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature". Sillanpää won international fame for his novel Nuorena nukkunut (translated to English as The Maid Silja) in 1931. The asteroid 1446 Sillanpää, discovered on January 26, 1938, by Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä, was named after him. Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born into a peasant farming family in Hämeenkyrö.

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää timeline

  1. The asteroid 1446 Sillanpää, discovered on January 26, 1938, by Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä, was named after him.
  2. Sillanpää won international fame for his novel Nuorena nukkunut (translated to English as The Maid Silja) in 1931.
  3. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature".

The world when Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born in 1888. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineGreat Blizzard of 1888 paralyzes US East Coast
  • Technology milestoneKodak box camera — "You press the button, we do the rest"
  • Defining fadKodak camera craze
  • World population~1.48B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population57.6M

1888 versus 2026

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Measure18882026
Population57.6M341 million

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