(1908-09-19)19 September 1908 Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Died
26 August 1979(1979-08-26) (aged 70) Helsinki, Finland
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Mika Toimi Waltari (pronounced[ˈmikɑˈʋɑltɑri]ⓘ; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen).[1] He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.[2]
Mika Toimi Waltari (pronounced [ˈmikɑ ˈʋɑltɑri] ; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The...
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(Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by MikaWaltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English...
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was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939, historical novelist MikaWaltari, and Väinö Linna with his The Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star...
name. Turms is also the name of a character in a historical novel by MikaWaltari, The Etruscan, which takes place during the end of Etruscan civilization...
figures as a character in the book Johannes Angelos by the Finnish author MikaWaltari (1952, Eng. translation The Dark Angel, 1953). In the novel he is depicted...
Literature in 1944 partly on the strength of it. The Finnish writer MikaWaltari is known for the historical novel The Egyptian (1945). Faroes–Danish...
website, the book covers part of Rome's early history. The Etruscan by MikaWaltari. Part of the story is set on the first few years of the Republic. Traitors’...
(original title Valtakunnan salaisuus) is a 1959 novel by Finnish author MikaWaltari about the early days of Christianity. The story is told through the eyes...
Adventurer (original title Mikael Karvajalka) by the Finnish writer MikaWaltari. The events are depicted as seen by Mikael Karvajalka, a young Finn in...
Månsdotter is the subject of a 1942 historical novel Karin Månsdotter by MikaWaltari. List of Swedish monarchs List of Finnish monarchs and Heads of State...
William Murdoch – created by Maureen Jennings Inspector Palmu – created by MikaWaltari Inspector Walter Purbright - created by Colin Watson Inspector Rebus...
Claudius and his contemporaries appear in the historical novel The Roman by MikaWaltari. Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert...
played the role of Jack Coleman, Veikko Itkonen was the director, and MikaWaltari received writing credits for the film. At the request of the Finnish...
Haanpää Efter applåderna, Kosti Vehanen Sinuhe, egyptiern (The Egyptian), MikaWaltari Torvalds, Linus; Diamond, David (2001). Just for fun : the story of an...
Inspector Palmu film, based on a character created by Finnish writer MikaWaltari. Although the film is shot in Finland, unlike the previous Finnish-language...
translates to Mankind's Enemies) is a novel by MikaWaltari published in 1964, and was the last work of Waltari to be published during his lifetime. Set in...
by Naguib Mahfouz. Akhenaten also appears in The Egyptian (1945) by MikaWaltari, which was adapted into the movie The Egyptian (1953). In this movie...
Granit (1900–1991), Finnish-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate MikaWaltari (1908–1979), writer Elina Haavio-Mannila (born 1933), social scientist...
historical novel The Adventurer, AKA Michael The Finn (Mikael Karvajalka) by MikaWaltari. In 1841 a bust by Max von Widnmann was added to the Walhalla memorial...