Larin-Kyösti

Karl Gustaf Larson (5 June 1873 – 2 December 1948), better known as Larin-Kyösti,[1] was a Finnish poet.

[2] Many of his poems have been set to music by Yrjö Kilpinen[3] or by Jean Sibelius (e.g. Kaiutar, op.

His parents, Gustaf Israel Larson and Sofia Vilhelmina Skog, were both born in Sweden.

In 1897, he published his first collection of poems, derived from Finnish folk life and nature.

In 1912, he established a residence at Oulunkylä, a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki where he lived for the rest of his life.