Gunnar Björling

He was one of the leading figures of Finnish-Swedish modernist literature, along with Elmer Diktonius, Edith Södergran and Hagar Olsson.

One of his teachers was the internationally renowned sociologist Edvard Westermarck, who greatly influenced Björling's thinking.

During his school years in Helsinki, Björling became a passionate socialist, was active in the trade unions and participated in several minor operations.

[2] Björling's debut as a poet came in 1922, when he was 35 years old, with Vilande dag, which consists of prose poems and aphorisms, some of them one-liners.

[3] Although Björling is principally considered a modernist poet, he also experimented with dadaism, and was sometimes called "Europe's last dadaist".