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SKS: Toivo Pekkanen - Finnish
URL: http://www.finlit.fi/tietopalvelu/tpekkanen/

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Toivo Pekkanen - French
URL: http://www.librairie-compagnie.fr/finlande/auteur/p/pekkanen.htm

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Littératures de Finlande. Dictionnaire bio-bibliographique des écrivains finlandais de langue finnoise, lapone et suédoise traduits en français

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Toivo Pekkanen - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tpekkane.htm

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Finnish working class writer, master of the social epic, who focused on his home town Kotka in several works. Pekkanen's highly acclaimed career nearly ended in the early 1950s, when he suffered from a stroke of apoplexy. However, he recovered and wrote one of his best books, the autobiographical LAPSUUTENI (My Childhood), which appeared in 1953. Pekkanen was the first Finnish author after the traumatic Civil War (1917-18), whose novels were read on both sides of the class barrier. Pekkanen also published short stories, plays, and aphorisms.

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