Jarl Hemmer

Jarl Robert Hemmer (18 September 1893 – 6 December 1944) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times.

Life 
He was born into a wealthy family, from Vaasa, Finland. His first collection of poems was called Rösterna (The Voices) and it was published in 1914. He made his breakthrough in 1922 with another collection of epic poetry called Rågens rike (Realm of the Rye). He got The Great Nordic Novel Prize (Stora Nordiska Romanpriset) for En man och hans samvete (A Fool of Faith), a book about the Finnish Civil War, published in 1931. Inwardly troubled, he experienced several religious crises and alcoholism and finally committed suicide.

Following the murder of Kaj Munk on 4 January 1944 the Danish resistance newspaper De frie Danske brought condemning reactions from influential Scandinavians, including Hemmer.

Works in English 
 The Voices  1914.
 Realm of the Rye Helsingfors : Akademiska Bokhandeln, 1938. 
 Fool of faith. New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., 1935,

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Category:1893 births
Category:1944 deaths
Category:People from Vaasa
Category:People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Category:Finnish writers in Swedish
Category:Finnish poets in Swedish
Category:Writers from Ostrobothnia (region)
Category:Swedish male writers who committed suicide
Category:20th-century poets
Category:Suicides in Finland