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Åländska kändisar 1 - Sally Salminen Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/23/2020
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Detta är en liten myst-serie för dom som älskar att pussla. Varje myst berättar lite om en känd Ålänning.

SALLY SALMINEN
Hon föddes 25 april 1906 på Vårdö, Åland och dog 18 juli 1976 i Köpenhamn i Danmark. Salminen blev berömd som författare när hon 1936 vann en svensk-finländsk romanpristävling med Katrina. Romanen har översatts till ett tjugotal språk och filmatiserades 1943 av Gustaf Edgren och sattes upp som en musikteater 1997. Hon skrev romanen medan hon arbetade som hembiträde i New York. Sally Salminen gifte sig 1940 med den danske målaren Johannes Dührkop och var bosatt i Danmark. Hon skrev många romaner efter Katrina, men nådde aldrig samma framgångar som med debuten. I Danmark blev hon emellertid en berömd kulturpersonlighet.

Pussel

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This is a small series of unknowns for puzzle lovers. Each mystery tells a little about a famous person from Åland.

SALLY SALMINEN
She was born on April 25, 1906 in Vårdö, Åland and died on July 18, 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Salminen became famous as a writer when she won a Swedish-Finnish novel prize competition with Katrina in 1936. The novel has been translated into some twenty languages and was filmed in 1943 by Gustaf Edgren and et up as a musical theater in 1997. She wrote the novel while working as a maid in New York. Sally Salminen married the Danish painter Johannes Dührkop in 1940 and lived in Denmark. She wrote many novels after Katrina, but never achieved the same success as with her debut. In Denmark, however, she became a famous cultural personality.

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