Henrik Tikkanen
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Georg Henrik Tikkanen (9 September 1924, Helsinki – 19 May 1984, Espoo) was a Finland-Swedish author, known primarily for anti-war literature. Several of his works are either autobiographical or semi-autobiographical. Though Finnish, he published primarily in his mother tongue, Swedish. He was born and lived much of his life in Helsinki, and died of leukemia in Espoo. He was married to the Finnish writer Märta Tikkanen.
Biography[edit]
He was the son of architect Toivo Robert Tikkanen and Kylliki Ingeborg Vitali, great-grandson of Paavo Tikkanen and grandson of Johan Jakob Tikkanen. Tikkanen was married to Lia Tikkanen from 1949 to 1962 and to Märta Cavonius from 1963. Tikkanen had no formal artistic training. As a teenager he contributed illustrations to weekly magazines and children's books, and drew the series "Konrad" which was published in Svenska Pressen. After graduating in 1943, he pursued liberal arts studies and received some guidance in graphic techniques from some active graphic artists. From 1947 to 1967, Tikkanen was a columnist and cartoonist for Hufvudstadsbladet and from 1967 for the Finnish-language daily Helsingin Sanomat and from 1977 for Dagens Nyheter. Tikkanen's cityscapes of Helsinki, in which he depicted the city's characteristics in simple lines, are particularly well-known. As a draftsman, he worked mainly in ink and produced a series of black-and-white drawings as a quick draftsman for various restaurants and companies in Finland. He participated in a large number of exhibitions in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Tikkanen is represented at the Gothenburg Museum of Art[1] and Svenska Klubben in Ekenäs, among others.
Tikkanen is also known for his writing. He wrote a series of autobiographical and expository books, including Brändövägen 8, in which he came to terms with his Finnish-Swedish bourgeois background. These books were one of the causes of the Tikkanen-Kihlman debate, which was partly about the negative image of the Finnish-Swedish upper class given by the two authors' self-confessions. As a book author, he published the book Kär i Stockholm in 1955,[2] which he illustrated with types of people, street pictures, restaurant life and architecture from post-war Stockholm.
Bibliography[edit]
- Mr. Gogo kommer till Europa. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1946. OCLC 186733627.
- Kär i Stockholm. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1955. OCLC 58123601.
- Bilbiten: Kåserier på fyra hjul. Helsinki: Hufvudstadsbladets Presstjänst. 1956. OCLC 58124338.
- Paddys land: Irländska skisser. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1957. OCLC 58123691.
- Över fjärden är himlen hög. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1959. OCLC 186511980.
- Hjältarna är döda. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1961. OCLC 1073581298.
- Ödlorna. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1965. OCLC 186578890.
- På jakt efter etrusker: Strövtåg i det etruskiska landskapet. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1967. OCLC 57940698.
- Min älskade skärgård. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1968. OCLC 57940669.
- I Sovjet. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1969. OCLC 816117692.
- Mitt Helsingfors. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1972. ISBN 9789515200556.
- Dödens Venedig. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1973. ISBN 9789515201287.
- Brändövägen 8 Brändö. Tel 35. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1975. ISBN 9789515202932.
- Bävervägen 11 Hertonäs. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1976. ISBN 9789515202932.
- Mariegatan 26 Kronohagen. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1977. ISBN 9789515203984.
- 30-åriga kriget. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1977. ISBN 9789515204288.
- Efter hjältedöden. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1979. ISBN 9789515206022.
- TTT. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1979. ISBN 9789515205223.
- Georgsgatan. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1980. ISBN 9789515206589.
- Henriksgatan. Porvoo: Alba. 1982. ISBN 9789174585223.
- Renault, mon amour: En autobiografi. Helsinki: Söderströms. 1983. ISBN 9789515208668.
Reviews[edit]
- Herdman, John (1980), review of Snob's Island in Cencrastus No. 4, Winter 1981–82, p. 46, ISSN 0264-0856
References[edit]
- ^ "Göteborgs Konstmuseum". Göteborgs Kunstmuseum. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ LIBRIS - Kär i Stockholm (in Swedish). 1955.
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- Schoolfield, George C. (1998). A history of Finland's literature. History of Scandinavian literatures. Vol. 4. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4189-3.
- Wrede, Johan (2014). "TIKKANEN, Henrik". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland.
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