10 Facts About Oiva Paloheimo

Oiva Aukusti Paloheimo was a Finnish author who wrote novels, short stories, poems and aphorisms.

Oiva Paloheimo's parents were businessman Aukusti Pietila and 16-year-old merchant's daughter Katri Salonen.

Paloheimo was separated from his mother immediately after birth, and because his father toured all over Finland in his business work, Oiva Paloheimo often had to live with his aunts as a child.

Oiva Paloheimo wrote his first play Kauppakirja at the age of nine and began writing poems and short stories.

Oiva Paloheimo published his first short stories under the pseudonym Oiva Kaisla in various magazines, and the first short story published under his own name appeared in the Sunday supplement of Aamulehti in 1926.

Oiva Paloheimo spent the following years making his autobiographical novel Restless Childhood, which was published in 1942.

Oiva Paloheimo was a journalist at Mikkelin Sanomat and Lansi-Savo newspapers.

From 1953, Oiva Paloheimo lived in Oulunkyla, Helsinki, first in a wooden house bequeathed by Larin-Kyosti to the Union of Finnish Writers in Verajamaki and later in Makitorpantie 40 until his death.

Oiva Paloheimo had two children from the first union and three from the second.

Oiva Paloheimo had financial difficulties, as much of his income went to child support payments.