Uljas Vikström, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Uljas Vikström

Finnish writer (1910-1977)

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1910

Place of Birth: Turku, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1977

Profession: writer

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Uljas Vikström (3 March 1910 Turku – 17 April 1977) was a Finnish writer, translator and editor, who lived in the Soviet Union. According to his family Vikström fled to Russia after the victory of the Whites in the Finnish civil war.
Vikström graduated in 1933 Leningrad communist university of journalists and 1935 the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West.
He began his career of writing in 1934.
He worked for many years as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Punalippu and translated a number of books by Soviet authors into Finnish. Vikström was the chairman of the Karelian Union of Writers from 1971 to 1975, and in 1968 was awarded the title of an honorary cultural figure of the Karelian ASSR.