Eeva Kilpi

Eeva Karin Kilpi (née Salo; 18 February 1928, Hiitola) is a Finnish writer and feminist.

[1] Better known abroad than in Finland, her poetry, characterized as feminist humor, was discovered in the 1980s in Europe.

[2] Eeva Karin Salo was born on February 18, 1928, to Solmu Aulis Aimo and Helmi Anna Maria (née Saharinen) Salo within the former Karelian municipality of Hiitola, Finnish Karelia, where she lived until the coming of the Winter War of 1939-1940.

[3][4] During the Winter War, Kilpi and her family survived bombings by hiding in an underground cellar.

Kilpi ended up attaining an education in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland.