Biography

Pentti Saarikoski was born on September 2, 1937 in Impilahti, Finland. He was a writer, known for Yö vai päivä (1962), Voi veljet, mikä päivä! (1961) and Teatterituokio (1962). He died on August 24, 1983 in Joensuu, Finland.

Finnish poet, author and political radical.

He translated such works as James Joyce's "Ulysses" and JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" though his English was far from perfect.

Father of Saska Saarikoski.