Viljo Kajava [SEP] date of birth
Viljo Kajava
Viljo Lennart Kajava (22 September 1909 in Tampere – 2 February 1998 in Helsinki) was a Finnish poet and writer. 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.
He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
Viljo
Viljo is an Estonian and Finnish masculine given name and may refer to:
- Viljo Halme (1907–1981), Finnish footballer
- Viljo Heino (1914–1998), Finnish track and field athlete and 1948 Olympic competitor
- Viljo Kajava (1909–1998), Finnish poet and writer
- Viljo Revell (1910–1964), Finnish architect
- Viljo Rosvall (1898–1929), Finnish-born Canadian unionist
- Viljo Tuompo (1893–1957), Finnish military Major General and Lieutenant General
- Viljo Vellonen (1920–1995)