Updated 2026-06-29 09.01 | Published 2026-06-27 18.00
The Finnish writer and poet Eeva Kilpi is dead, Finnish media reports.
She lived to be 98 years old.
As a child, she was evacuated with her family from Karelia when Finland was forced to cede the area to the Soviet Union – and several of her works have been marked by the wartime, such as the autobiographical trilogy “Time of the Winter War”, “Time of Longing” and “Time of the Continuation War”, writes Svenska Yle.
Kilpi also became known as a strong voice for women’s rights and often wrote about women’s lives. The novel “Tamara”, from 1972, created great debate when it was published because in the book she portrays a woman who lives out her erotic desires.
She was awarded, among others, the Pro Finlandia Medal in 1974, the Runeberg Prize in 1990 and the Aleksis Kivi Prize in 2017.
