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Jarkko Laine in 1972. Jarkko Aarre Juhani Laine (17 March 1947 – 19 August 2006) was a Finnish poet and a writer of prose and plays. He also translated American literature to Finnish. [1] Jarkko Laine was born in Turku, Finland. He became known from the 1960s underground movement, deriving inspiration from popular culture, pop music and comics.
The SLS archives are a rich source of knowledge about Swedish-speaking Finland, its history, traditions, literature, languages, everyday life and folk music. SLS documents contemporary society and accepts donations of cultural and historical material comprising everything from manuscripts and photographs to audio and video recordings, and maps.
Sinikka Laine-Törmänen (born 17 October 1945) is a Finnish author primarily of young adult fiction. [1] Her first novel Ohari was published in 1982. [2]Laine has won many literary awards and her novel Tyttö tuulesta, poika pimeästä (1986) won the Finnish state literature award (Finnish: Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto).
The library network expanded slowly when new branch libraries were established in different parts of the city. Turku also had the first mobile library in Finland, which started operating in 1961. The music library was opened on the first floor of the Main Library in 1970. [8]
Helsinki City Library (Finnish: Helsingin Kaupunginkirjasto, until 1910 Helsinki People's Library) is the largest public library in Finland. Owned by the City of Helsinki, the library has 37 branches and a collection of about 1.56 million books. [1] The City Library is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries network.
The oldest part of the library complex, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, dates back to 1844. The newer extension Rotunda , designed by architect Gustaf Nyström , was completed in 1906. The bulk of the collection is, nonetheless, stored in Kirjaluola (Finnish for “book cave”), a 57,600-cubic-metre (2,030,000 cu ft) underground bunker drilled ...
The library's collection comprises about 334,000 volumes from Finland and abroad and around 200 magazines in various languages. [32] In addition to literature on archiving, history and source books, the library has a large collection of books on heraldry and sigillography, and it also has a historically significant amount of literature printed ...
Finland was then politically controlled by Russia and had previously been part of Sweden. The Kalevala was therefore an important part of early Finnish identity. Beside the collection of lyric poems known as the Kanteletar it has been and still is a major influence on art and music, as in the case of Jean Sibelius. It is a common misconception ...