Thomas Warburton
Finnish writer and translator (1918-2016) · Finland · On the map · Writers · Died at 98
Thomas Henry Warburton was a Finnish writer, translator, and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1997, as well as the State Prize for Translators in 1971, 1977, and 1978, the Tollander Prize in 1976, and the Lybeck Prize in 1971.
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He was the son of engineer Thomas Harald Warburton and Elli Nordling, and married Kerstin Ingeborg Schulman in 1940. Warburton graduated from the Svenska Normallyceum i Helsingfors in 1936 and studied at the University of Helsinki from 1936 to 1943. As an author, his works include the poetry collection Du, människa (1942), the essay collection Tvä främlingar (1944) on T.S. Eliot and James Joyce, and the literary history Femtio år finlandssvensk litteratur (1951).
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