Väinö Linna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Väinö Linna

Finnish writer

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1920

Place of Birth: Urjala, Finland

Date of Death: 21-Apr-1992

Profession: writer

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Väinö Linna (pronunciation ) (20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author.
He gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).