Joel Lehtonen

This article is about a Finnish author. For Finnish footballer, see Joel Lehtonen (footballer).

Joel Lehtonen (27 November 1881 – 20 November 1934) was a Finnish author, translator, critic and journalist. He was born in Sääminki (now part of Savonlinna). His childhood was fatherless and poverty-stricken, his mother suffered from mental frailties and Joel himself was forced into paupery. Joel's foster mother supported his schooling and Lehtonen was able to study literature for a few years in the University of Helsinki, but dropped out without completing a degree.

As an author, he began as a neoromanticist, but after the Finnish Civil War his outlook transformed into deep pessimism and disenchanted scepticism.

Having suffered for years from various ailments, he committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope, that had been used to wrap up a parcel of books, in November 1934.

Bibliography

• Paholaisen viulu (1904)
• Perm (1904)
• Mataleena (1905)
• Villi (1905)
• Tarulinna : Suomen kansan satuja Suomen lapsille (1906)
• Myrtti ja alppiruusu (1911)
• Rakkaita muistoja (1911)
• Punainen mylly (1913)
• Kerran kesällä (1917)
• Kuolleet omenapuut (1918)
• Putkinotkon metsäläiset (1919)
• Putkinotkon herrastelijat (1920)
• Rakastunut rampa eli Sakris Kukkelman, köyhä polseviikki
• Sorron lapset (1923)
• Punainen mies (1925)
• Lintukoto (1929)
• Hyvästijättö lintukodolle, (1934)

External links

• Works by Joel Lehtonen at Project Gutenberg