Misplaced Pages

Meri Utrio

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Meri Utrio" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Meri Marjatta Utrio (née Vitikainen; 23 March 1919 – 14 December 2004) was a Finnish editor and translator.

Personal life

She married Urho Untamo Utrio, who was the chief executive officer of Tammi publishing company and had three children with him: Kaari (1942–) Pirkka (1943–2000) and Martti (1945–). Kaari Utrio wrote over forty historical novels as well as non-fictional books that deal with the position of women and children in the history of Europe.

Utrio's sister, Pirkko Vitikainen, M.A. in Architecture, worked in the 1980s and 1900s as the City Planning Architect of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

Works

  • Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief, Dog of the North (translation to Finnish 1957)
  • Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief to the Rescue (translation to Finnish 1957)
  • Jack O'Brien: The Return of Silver Chief (translation to Finnish 1958)
  • Sata vuotta sitten 1886 (Finnish: One hundred years ago: 1886) (with her son-in-law Kai Linnilä; Tammi 1886)
  • Pois pula, pois puute. Kun kansa selviytyi. (No more shortages, no more want. When Finland became self-sufficient) (with Urho Untamo Utrio)
  • Silloin kerran kultaisina vuosina – elämä Suomessa vuosina 1944–1956 (The Golden Years – Life in Finland 1944–1956) (with Kai Linnilä and Kaari Utrio)

References

  1. "Meri Utrio". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 14 December 2004. Retrieved 8 September 2019.


Flag of FinlandWriter icon

This article about a Finnish writer or poet is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: