Awards & Winners

Pentti Holappa

Date of Birth 11-August-1927
Place of Birth Ylikiiminki
(Finland)
Nationality
Pentti Holappa is a Finnish poet and writer. Born in Ylikiiminki to a family of modest means, he held numerous jobs before becoming Minister of Culture. Self-educated, he has published close to fifteen volumes of poetry, six novels, and numerous essays. He has also worked as a translator; among the poets and authors whose work he has translated into Finnish are Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Reverdy, and J. M. G. Le Clézio. He received the Finlandia Prize in 1998.

Awards by Pentti Holappa

Check all the awards nominated and won by Pentti Holappa.

1998


Finlandia Award
Honored for : Ystävän muotokuva
(Finnish)