Eeva Joenpelto

Eeva Joenpelto (middle) sitting next to president Urho Kekkonen (left) on Independence Day, 1958.
Eeva Joenpelto's Square in Lohja.

Eeva Elisabeth Joenpelto (17 June 1921, Sammatti, Finland – 28 January 2004, Lohja, Finland), married name after 1945 Hellemann, was an award-winning Finnish novelist. Her writing is especially remembered for the Lohja tetralogy which depicted strong women. Described as a "productive novelist of monomaniacal intensity",[1] she occasionally wrote under the pseudonyms of Eeva Helle and Eeva Autere. Joenpelto was President of PEN Finland in 1964-67 and worked as an art professor from 1980–85. She was married (until 1975) to Jarl Hellemann, the CEO of Tammi.

  1. ^ Schoolfield, George C. (1998). A History of Finland's Literature. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 201–. ISBN 0-8032-4189-5.