Maria Jotuni


Maria Gustaava Jotuni was a Finnish author and a playwright.

Life

Jotuni went to an all-girls school in Kuopio. She graduated in 1900 and planned to become teacher. In 1900–1904 she studied history and literature at the University of Helsinki. Jotuni met her future husband, the literary critic :fi:Viljo Tarkiainen|Viljo Tarkiainen, in the university, and they got married in 1911. They had two sons: Jukka Tarkiainen and :fi:Tuttu Tarkiainen|Tuttu Tarkiainen.
She is sometimes considered an early feminist, and according to Jukka's son Kari Tarkiainen, her posthumously published novel Huojuva talo was based on her marriage to his grandfather; it depicts the husband as nightmarishly abusive.
She started working as a journalist in a student magazine at the University of Helsinki. Maria Haggrén changed her surname to Jotuni in 1906. "Jotuni" means a giant in Scandinavian mythology. She died of heart disease in Helsinki.

Works

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