Huldén, Lars
Lars Huldén was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer, scholar and translator. Born in Jakobstad, Finland, in 1926, he grew up on the farm Nörråkers in Munsala, Ostrobothnia. (His father, Evert Huldén, had been both a farmer and a poet.) His first book of poetry was published in 1958. Lars Huldén died at the age of 90 on 11 October 2016 in Helsinki.
He was professor of Nordic languages at Helsinki university 1964–1989. In 1986 Huldén received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1993. He has researched Carl Michael Bellman, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish dialects and toponomy.
Lars Huldén and his son Mats Huldén translated Kalevala into Swedish in 1999. In 2000, Lars Huldén was awarded the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize.