Maila Talvio
Born	Maila Winter October 17, 1871 Hartola
Died	January 6, 1951 Helsinki
Occupation	Writer
Language	Finnish
Nationality	Finnish
Genre	Novel, collection of short stories, drama, collection of speeches and biography
Partner	J. J. Mikkola

Maila Talvio née Winter, married Mikkola (October 17, 1871 – January 6, 1951), was a Finnish writer. Talvio was a leading Finnish writer on the temperance question and several of her works were translated into Swedish and other languages. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.^[1]

Life

She was born in Hartola, the daughter of Adolf Magnus Winter and Julia Malvina Bonsdorf, who had a family of 9 children. Talvio's father died when she was 9 years old.

Her husband was J. J. Mikkola, a renowned scholar of Slavic linguistics, whom she married in 1893. She died in Helsinki, where she is buried in Hietaniemi Cemetery.^[2]

Books

Awards

• Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto (1936)
• Aleksis Kiven kirjallisuuspalkinto (1940)