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Frans Eemil Sillanpää

1888 - 1964

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää (pronounced [frɑns ˈeːmil ˈsilːɑmˌpæː] ; 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frans Eemil Sillanpää is the 300th most popular writer (up from 384th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Finland (up from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Finnish Writer.

Sillanpää is most famous for his novel "Seitsemän veljestä" (Seven Brothers), which was published in the 1930s.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frans Eemil Sillanpää ranks 300 out of 7,302. Before him are Walt Whitman, Alfonso X of Castile, Paul Auster, Karen Blixen, Alphonse Daudet, and François de La Rochefoucauld. After him are Guillaume de Machaut, Arthur Miller, Shams Tabrizi, Czesław Miłosz, Alberto Moravia, and Chrétien de Troyes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Frans Eemil Sillanpää ranks 12. Before him are Otto Stern, T. E. Lawrence, Dale Carnegie, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, José Raúl Capablanca, and Roland Garros. After him are Nikolai Bukharin, Nestor Makhno, John Logie Baird, Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, and Carl Schmitt. Among people deceased in 1964, Frans Eemil Sillanpää ranks 6. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Leo Szilard, Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, and Victor Francis Hess. After him are Paul of Greece, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, James Franck, Alma Mahler, Rachel Carson, and Norbert Wiener.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Frans Eemil Sillanpää ranks 6 out of 751. Before him are Alvar Aalto (1898), Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867), Simo Häyhä (1905), Jean Sibelius (1865), and Tove Jansson (1914). After him are Paavo Nurmi (1897), Tarja Halonen (1943), Elias Lönnrot (1802), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), and Sauli Niinistö (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Frans Eemil Sillanpää ranks 2. Before him are Tove Jansson (1914). After him are Mika Waltari (1908), Mikael Agricola (1510), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), Väinö Linna (1920), Minna Canth (1844), and Juhani Aho (1861).

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