Mika waltari biography
Mika waltari biography
Mika waltari sinuhe.
Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari (pronunciation (help·info)) (19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer. He is best known for his best-selling novelThe Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen).
His career lasted over 40 years. He wrote at least 29 novels, 15 novellas, 6 collections of stories or fairy tales, 6 collections of poetry and 26 plays. Waltari wrote screenplays, radio plays, non-fiction, translations, and hundreds of reviews and articles.
He is also internationally the best-known Finnish writer.
Mika waltari the egyptian
His works have been translated into more than 30 languages.[1]
Career
[change | change source]Waltari graduated from the University of Helsinki.[2] He first studied theology, then history and languages.
His career as writer started with religious poems and horror short stories. His first novel Suuri illusioni ('The Great Illusion') was his fifth work and a big success. It has been compared to the famous works of the 1920s by