Mika Waltari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mika Waltari

Finnish writer

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1908

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1979

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, translator, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mika Toimi Waltari (pronunciation ) (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen).
He was extremely productive, and wrote in addition to novels also poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts and rhymed texts for comic strips.