• Thumbnail for Frans Eemil Sillanpää
    Frans Eemil Sillanpää (pronounced [frɑns ˈeːmil ˈsilːɑmˌpæː] ; 16 September 1888 – 3 June 1964) was a Finnish author. In 1939, he became the first Finnish...
    8 KB (786 words) - 16:53, 11 May 2024
  • minister Rosa Sillanpää (1888–1929), Finnish trade union activist and politician Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888-1964), Finnish writer Jari Sillanpää (born 1965)...
    567 bytes (102 words) - 10:20, 17 May 2020
  • Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly...
    10 KB (1,246 words) - 19:06, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature
    1939 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) "for his deep understanding of his country’s peasantry...
    11 KB (489 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nordic countries
    Henrik Pontoppidan, Knut Hamsun, Sigrid Undset, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly...
    163 KB (13,435 words) - 22:24, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature
    which included Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Ivan Bunin (awarded in 1933), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (awarded in 1939), Johannes V. Jensen (awarded in 1944), Paul Valéry...
    13 KB (783 words) - 16:50, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature
    first-time nominated among them Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Frans Eemil Sillanpää (awarded in 1939), Arvid Järnefelt, Paul Valéry, Lion Feuchtwanger...
    11 KB (508 words) - 13:52, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Autumn of the Middle Ages
    1939 Nobel Prize for Literature, but lost to the Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Huizinga's work later came under some criticism, especially for...
    6 KB (629 words) - 07:54, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Finland
    explored national and historical themes. Most famous of them were Frans Eemil Sillanpää, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939, historical...
    240 KB (20,339 words) - 22:24, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Nobel laureates
    Ernest Lawrence Adolf Butenandt; Leopold Ružička Gerhard Domagk Frans Eemil Sillanpää None 1940 Cancelled due to World War II 1941 1942 1943 Otto Stern...
    57 KB (1,733 words) - 19:37, 11 July 2024