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Home/Memorials/Finland/Helsinki/Pentti Holappa

Pentti Holappa

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Biography of Pentti Holappa

11. Aug 1927 – 10. Oct 2017(90 years)Died in:Helsinki, Uusimaa

Finnischer Schriftsteller

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Ylikiiminki, North Ostrobothnia

Helsinki, Uusimaa

Finland

respiratory failure

Occupation(6)

linguist journalist poet politician translator writer

Awards(5)

Finlandia Award Finnish State Prize for Literature Officer of the National Order of Merit Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland Officer of Arts and Letters

Offices & Positions(1)

Minister of Culture

Pentti Holappa (* 11. August 1927 in Ylikiiminki; † 10. October 2017 in Helsinki) was a finnischer Schriftsteller. He was 90 years old. He received 5 awards, including Finlandia Award, Finnish State Prize for Literature. His cause of death was respiratory failure.

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1927

Born in Ylikiiminki, North Ostrobothnia

2017

Died in Helsinki, Uusimaa (respiratory failure)

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