Eeva-Liisa Manner

Eeva-Liisa Manner (5 December 1921 in Helsinki – 7 July 1995 in Tampere), Finnish poet, playwright and translator. She was born in Helsinki but spent her youth in Vyborg (Viipuri). Manner started as a poet in 1944 (Mustaa ja punaista — "Black and Red"). From her breakthrough collection of poems, Tämä matka ("This Journey", 1956) she has been seen as one of the most influential modernists in post-war Finland. Eeva-Liisa Manner wrote over fifteen original collections of poems, plays for theater and radio, novels and short prose. She translated widely contemporary and classic literature, including names like William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Hermann Hesse, and Franz Kafka. Her work has been translated to many European languages. Translation of Manner's Selected Poems in English was published in 1997, and the novel Girl on Heaven's Pier in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press.