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Maria Gustaava Jotuni (Haggrén until 1906,[1] Jotuni-Tarkiainen from 1911, born 9 April 1880[1] Kuopio, died 30 September 1943 in Helsinki) was a Finnish author and a playwright.

Maria Jotuni
Maria Jotuni in 1930
Born	Maria Gustaava Jotuni (1880-04-09)9 April 1880 Kuopio, Finland
Died	30 September 1943(1943-09-30) (aged 63) Helsinki, Finland

Life

Jotuni went to an all-girls school in Kuopio.[2] She graduated in 1900 and planned to become a teacher. In 1900–1904 she studied history and literature at the University of Helsinki.[2] Jotuni met her future husband, the literary critic Viljo Tarkiainen (1879–1951), in the university, and they got married in 1911. They had two sons: Jukka Tarkiainen and Tuttu Tarkiainen.

She is sometimes considered an early feminist,[3] and according to Jukka's son Kari Tarkiainen, her posthumously published novel Huojuva talo ("Tottering House") was based on her marriage to his grandfather; it depicts the husband as nightmarishly abusive.

She started working as a journalist in a student magazine at the University of Helsinki. Maria Haggrén changed her surname to Jotuni in 1906. "Jotuni" means a giant in Scandinavian mythology.[2][4][5] She died of heart disease in Helsinki.[1]

Works

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Plays:

• Vanha koti (1910: "The Old Home")
• Miehen kylkiluu (1914: "The Man's Rib")
• Savu-uhri (1915: "Smoke Sacrifice")
• Kultainen vasikka (1918: "The Golden Calf")
• Tohvelisankarin rouva (1924: "The Hen-Pecked Husband's Wife")
• Olen syyllinen (1929: "I am Guilty")
• Kurdin prinssi (1932: "The Kurd Prince")
• Klaus, Louhikon herra (1942: "Klaus, Master of Louhikko")

Novels:

• Arkielämää (1909: "Ordinary Life")
• Huojuva talo (1936, published 1963 posthumously. Depicts contemporary literary ideas, realism and Tolstoyism. Adapted for the Finnish stage by Maaria Koskiluoma in 1983; Koskiluoma's stage adaptation was translated into English as Tottering House by Douglas Robinson for the Frank Theatre in Minneapolis in 1994.)
• Äiti ja poika. Elämän hiljaisina hetkinä (1965: "Mother and Son: In Life's Quiet Moments")
• Norsunluinen laulu (1947, posthumous: "Ivory Song")
• Jäähyväiset (1949, posthumous: "Farewell").

Short stories:

• Suhteita (1905: "Relationships")
• Rakkautta (1907: "Love")
• Kun on tunteet (1913: "Since There Are Feelings")
• Martinin rikos (1914: "Martin's Crime")
• Jussi ja Lassi (1921: "Jussi and Lassi")
• Tyttö ruusutarhassa (1927: "The Girl in the Rose Garden")

Collection of other works:

• Kootut teokset I–IV (1930: "Collected Works I-IV")
• Valitut teokset (1954: "Selected Works")
• Maria Jotunin aforismit (1959: "MJ's Aphorisms")
• Novellit ja muuta proosaa I–II (edited by Irmeli Niemi, Otava, 1980: "Short Stories and Other Prose, I-II")
• Näytelmät (edited by Irmeli Niemi. Otava, 1981: "Plays")
• Kun on tunteet, Tyttö ruusutarhassa ynnä muita novelleja edited by Irmeli Niemi, SKS, 1999, 262 pages, ISBN 951-746-125-9 ("Since There Are Feelings, The Girl in the Rose Garden, and Other Short Stories")

References

External links

• http://home.c2i.net/amd/finwomen/jotuni.htm Another page about Jotuni
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090105192942/http://www.teatteri.org/theatre/nevala.htm Finnish theatre site about Jotuni
• Maria Jotuni in 375 humanists 21.1.2015, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki

На других языках

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[ru] Йотуни, Мария

Мария Йотуни, настоящая фамилия Хаггрен (фин. Maria Jotuni; 9 апреля 1880, Куопио — 30 сентября 1943, Хельсинки) — финская писательница и драматург.

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