Viljo Kajava, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Viljo Kajava

Finnish writer

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1909

Place of Birth: Tampere, Finland

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1998

Profession: poet, author, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Viljo Lennart Kajava (22 September 1909 – 2 February 1998) was a Finnish poet and writer.
He was born in Tampere, and his first collections of poems were released in 1935.
During his 50-year career he published nearly 40 books, most of them poems.
Kavaja's Tampereen runot ("Poems of Tampere 1918") has become a symbol of the pacifistic point of view of the Finnish Civil War. He died in Helsinki, and is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery there.