Aleksis Kivi

ABOUT ALEKSIS KIVI

Finnish novelist, poet, and playwright who is most remembered for his groundbreaking 1870 novel, Seven Brothers. The work is widely considered the most important piece of Finnish-language fiction.

He began studying literature at the University of Helsinki in 1859 and became a full-time writer beginning in 1863.

He suffered from schizophrenia and died in destitution at the young age of thirty-eight.

The son of a tailor, he grew up in Nurmijarvi, Finland.

He and Jarkko Laine were famous Finnish authors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, respectively.