Frans Eemil Sillanpää — Nobel Prize in Literature 1939

“for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature”

The Swedish Academy awarded Frans Eemil Sillanpää the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he has portrayed their way of life and their relationship with Nature.