Word: sillanp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
...MAID SILJA-F. E. Sillanpãã- Macmillan ($2). Story of a Finnish girl's rise and decline, with a background of the War against...
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