Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1–3 by Väinö Linna

A decade after the peace treaty with the Soviet Union many Finns were ready to reminisce, some even in a critical manner. It is evident that at the time there was a distinct social need for a novel that would deal with the war and ordinary people's role in it. Not until the release of The Unknown Soldier (1954) did he rise to fame. However, Linna's first two novels Päämäärä and Musta rakkaus sold poorly he also wrote poetry but did not enjoy success with that either. Linna later said that Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front had also had a great influence on him. Such authors as Schopenhauer, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche gained Linna's respect. Throughout his time at Finlayson, Väinö Linna read avidly. Īfter the war, Linna got married and started writing while working at the mills during the day. In spite of rejection, the idea of a novel, which would depict ordinary soldiers' views on war, would later lead him to write The Unknown Soldier. However, failure to get the notes published led him to burn them. Already at this point Linna knew that writing would be his preferred occupation. In addition to being a squad-leader, he wrote notes and observations about his and his unit's experiences. The Second World War had broken out, and for Linna's part it meant participation in the Continuation War (1941–44). In 1940, Linna was conscripted into the army. Typical of his generation, the adolescent author-to-be moved from the countryside to a developing city in search of industrial labour which he found at the Finlayson textile mills. After working as a lumberjack and a farm hand at the same manor where his mother had worked, Linna moved to Tampere in 1938. The author's education was, however, limited to six years at a public school which he finished in the mid-1930s.

As a child, Linna loved adventure novels which he borrowed from the local library. Despite his background, Linna's interest in literature began early on. Linna's father, a butcher, died when he was only seven years old, thus his mother had to support the entire family by working at a nearby manor. He was the seventh child of Viktor (Vihtori) Linna (1874–1928) and Johanna Maria (Maija) Linna (1888–1972). Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region.

Both have been adapted to a film format on several occasions The Unknown Soldier was first adapted into a film in 1955 and Under the North Star in 1968 as Here, Beneath the North Star, both directed by Edvin Laine. He gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas ( The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla ( Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola). Väinö Linna ( pronounced ( listen) 20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author. Väinö Linna in Palm Beach, Florida, on a trip in the United States, in March 1963.

Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1–3 by Väinö Linna