Viljo Lennart Kajava (22 September 1909 – 2 February 1998) was a Finnish poet and writer. He was born in

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

, 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'' ("Poems of Tampere 1918") has become a symbol of the pacifistic point of view of the

Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between Whites (Finland), White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition fr ...

. He died in

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, and is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery there. Kajava studied at the University of Helsinki. He started as a writer in the mid-1930s. His production was very social and left -wing. He was a central member of the member's writer association Kiila. The Winter War between 1939 and 1940 was a major transformation for Kajava, and he moved from sociality to nature and impressionist lyrics in his production. During the Continuation War, Kajava served as a front correspondent in the TK company.Pekkanen, Toivo – Rauanheimo, Reino (toim.): ''Kailaasta Meriluotoon: Suomalaisten kirjailijain elämäkertoja'', s. 374–381. Porvoo–Helsinki: WSOY, 1947.

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* 1909 births 1998 deaths People from Tampere Writers from Pirkanmaa Finnish male poets Recipients of the Eino Leino Prize Finnish literary critics 20th-century Finnish poets Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery 20th-century Finnish male writers {{Finland-writer-stub