Mirkka Rekola

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Mirkka Rekola
BornMirkka Elina Rekola
(1931-06-26)26 June 1931
Tampere, Finland
Died5 February 2014(2014-02-05) (aged 82)
Helsinki, Finland
OccupationPoet, aphorist, essayist
LanguageFinnish
Website
www.kaapeli.fi/rekola

Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 – 5 February 2014) was a

poems, aphorisms, essays. Her poetry was considered ‘difficult’, thus she gained wide audience as late as in the 1990s. Rekola's production has not really been the subject of research until after the mid-1990s. Liisa Enwald's 1997 dissertation Kaiken liikkeessä lepo contributed to pioneering research. In 2020, the Runopuu mural, painted by Teemu Mäenpää and produced by the Annikki Poetry Festival, was published in Tampere, as part of which is Rekola's poem "Minä rakastan sinua, minä sanon sen kaikille".[1]

She died in Helsinki in 2014.[2]

Works

Poems

Aphorisms

  • Muistikirja (1969) ("Notebook")
  • Maailmat lumen vesistöissä (1978) ("The Worlds in the Waters of Snow")
  • Silmänkantama (1984) ("As Far as I Can See")
  • Tuoreessa muistissa kevät, aforistiset kokoelmat (1998)
  • Muistinavaruus (2000) ("The Space of Memory")

Translated books

Awards

Nominees

References

  1. YLE
    (in Finnish). Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  2. ^ Pääkkönen, Sirpa (6 February 2014). "Runoilija Mirkka Rekola on kuollut" (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 11 February 2014.

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