Finnish writer and journalist. He was Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Finland. In 1948-49 and 1951-54 he lived in the United States. He began his literary career as a poet. His early novel “Dear Poor and Their Motley Company” (1944) is a satire on bankrupt businessmen during the economic crisis of the 30s. In the novel Impatient Passion (1945) and others. Larney paints the lives of workers. In 1948, he published the historical novel “Heaven descended to earth”. The novel-pamphlet “The Fourth Vertebrae,
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Finnish writer and journalist. He was Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Finland. In 1948-49 and 1951-54 he lived in the United States. He began his literary career as a poet. His early novel “Dear Poor and Their Motley Company” (1944) is a satire on bankrupt businessmen during the economic crisis of the 30s. In the novel Impatient Passion (1945) and others. Larney paints the lives of workers. In 1948, he published the historical novel “Heaven descended to earth”. The novel-pamphlet “The Fourth Vertebrae, or the Fraudster involuntarily” (1957, Russian translation 1959), the satirical novel “The Beautiful Pig, or Memoirs of Economic Advisor Minna Karlsson-Kananen” (1959, Russian translation 1961).