JOEL LEHTONEN

'Joel Lehtonen' (November 11 1881 - 1934) was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist. Born in Sääminki, closeby to Savonlinna he committed suicide in November of 1934. His childhood was fatherless and poverty-stricken, his mother suffered from mental frailties and Joel himself was forced into paupery. Joel's foster mother supported his schooling and Lehtonen was able to study literature for a few years in the University of Helsinki, but dropped out without completing a degree.
As an author, he began as a neoromanticist, but after the Finnish Civil War his outlook transformed into deep pessimism and disenchanted scepticism.

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★ ''Paholaisen viulu'' (1904)

★ ''Perm'' (1904)

★ ''Mataleena'' (1905)

★ ''Villi'' (1905)

★ ''Tarulinna : Suomen kansan satuja Suomen lapsille'' (1906)

★ ''Myrtti ja alppiruusu'' (1911)

★ ''Rakkaita muistoja'' (1911)

★ ''Punainen mylly'' (1913)

★ ''Kuolleet omenapuut'' (1918)

★ ''Putkinotkon metsäläiset'' (1919)

★ ''Putkinotkon herrastelijat'' (1920)

★ ''Sorron lapset'' (1923)

★ ''Punainen mies'' (1925)

★ ''Lintukoto'' (1929)

★ ''Hyvästijättö lintukodolle'', (1934)

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