Maila Talvio

Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871 – January 6, 1951), was a Finnish writer. Talvio was a leading Finnish writer on the temperance question and several of her works were translated into Swedish and other languages.

She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Life

She was born in Hartola, the daughter of Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children. Talvio's father died when she was 9 years old.

Her husband was J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893. She died in Helsinki, where she is buried in Hietaniemi Cemetery.

Awards

Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto (1936)

Aleksis Kiven kirjallisuuspalkinto (1940)