What is Leevi Lehto?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | image = Leevi-Lehto.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Leevi Lehto at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 2008) | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1951|2|23}} | birth_place = [[Asikkala]], [[Finland]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|6|22|1951|2|23|df=y}} | death_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Leevi Lehto''' (23 February 1951 – 22 June 2019) was a [[Finnish people|Finnish]] [[poet]], [[translator]], and [[programmer]]. His best known work was the Finnish translation of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' by [[James Joyce]]. He translated the works of [[Louis Althusser]], [[Gilles Deleuze]], [[George Orwell]], [[Stephen King]], [[Ian McEwan]], [[Josef Skvorecky]], [[Walter Benjamin]], [[John Keats]], [[John Ashbery]], [[Mickey Spillane]] and [[Charles Bernstein]]. Lehto died of [[multiple system atrophy]] in [[Helsinki]] on 22 June 2019, aged 68.<ref>{{cite news |title=HS: Kirjailija Leevi Lehto on kuollut 68-vuotiaana |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/92352915-4b75-466c-b52d-277ffb7493bd |publisher=Iltalehti |access-date=2019-06-22 |language=fi |date=2019-06-22}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lehto, Leevi}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Finnish poets]] [[Category:European translators]] {{bio-stub}}