Viljo Kajava


Viljo Lennart Kajava was a Finnish poet and writer. He was born in Tampere, and his first collections of poems were released in 1935. During his 50-year career he published nearly 40 books, most of them poems. Kavaja's Tampereen runot has become a symbol of the pacifistic point of view of the Finnish Civil War.
He died in Helsinki, and is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery there.