Eeva Kilpi

Eeva Kilpi (b. 1928), often portrays women in their relationships with men, with friends, with children – especially in the role of single parent – and with nature, which these women protect and befriend as a living partner and a source of renewed strength.

Kilpi’s literary works, particularly her reflections on aging, identity, women’s experiences, nature and animal rights have earned her a place as one of Finland’s most esteemed authors.

Eeva Kilpi has been awarded Finland’s State Prize for Literature four times (1968, 1974, 1984 and 2019), and the Aleksis Kivi Prize for her lifetime literary achievements in 2017.

In Finland, Kilpi is considered a national treasure, a courageous trailblazer and a feminist icon. Her work consists of poetry, novellas and autobiographical works, translated into 20 languages.

Albanian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese.