Joel Lehtonen

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Birth Name: Joel Heikarainen

Born: 11 November 1881 Died: 20 November 1934

Country of origin: Finland

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Description: Joel Lehtonen was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist. He was born in Sääminki (now part of Nyslott). His childhood was fatherless and poverty-stricken, his mother suffered from mental frailties and Joel himself was forced into paupery. Joel's foster mother supported his schooling and Lehtonen was able to study literature for a few years in the University of Helsinki, but dropped out without completing a degree. As an author, he began as a neoromanticist, but after the Finnish Civil War his outlook transformed into deep pessimism and disenchanted scepticism. He committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope ... (more)