Arvid Mörne

Arvid Mörne (6 May 1876 – 15 June 1946) was a Finland-Swedish author and poet. His nature poetry made the archipelago and coastal landscapes of Nyland the defining poetic landscape of Finland-Swedish literature. During the 1930s and 1940s he emerged as one of Scandinavia's foremost voices for democracy against the rising totalitarian movements in Europe, both as a poet and as a publicist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Biography Mörne was born in Kuopio to Arvid Oscar Mörne and Maria Gustava Lindroos. He graduated in 1894 and obtained a master's degree in literature and history at the University of Helsinki in 1897, and a PhD in 1910. He worked as a superintendent at the Nyland's folk high school Finns between 1899 and 1909, and as a teacher at the same school between 1909 and 1911. He was forced to leave this position after his involvement in the General Strike of 1905, where led a deputation that entered the house of Governor-General Obolensky, where the Senate was assembled, and demanded its resignation. At that time, he was no longer a member of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, but had almost become a social liberal.

Prizes and awards De Nios stora pris 1931 De Nios stora pris 1940

Selected works Rytm och rim (lyric poetry) (1899) Nya sånger (lyric poetry) (1901) Bland bränningarna (play) (1903) Ny tid (lyric poetry) (1903) Josef Julius Wecksell. En studie (academic dissertation) (1909) Döda år (lyric poetry) (1910) Alexis Kivi och hans novel "Seitsemän veljestä" (history of literature) (1911) Skärgårdens vår (lyric poetry) (1913) Den svenska jorden. En nyländsk novell (short story) (1913) Ödemarksdramer I. Den helige Henricus (play) (1914) Från "Saima" till "Vikingen" (history) (1916) Sommarnatten (lyric poetry) (1916) Strandbyggaröden 1–3 (short stories) (1917) Den röde våren (novel) (1917) Fädernearvet (play) (1918) Offer och segrar från Finlands kampår (lyric poetry) (1918) Sverige och det svenska Finland (essay) (1918) Höstlig dikt (lyric poetry) (1919) Samlade dikter 1-8 (lyric poetry collections) (1919) Nya Wecksell-studier (history of literature) (1920) Solens återkomst (play) (1920) Inför havets anlete (novel) (1921) Kristina Bjur (novel) (1922) Klas-Kristians julnatt (short story) (1923) Vandringen och vägen (lyric poetry) (1924) Ett liv (novel) (1925) Dikter i urval (lyric poetry collection) (1926) Mörkret och lågan (lyric poetry) (1926) Axel Olof Freudenthal och den finlandssvenska nationalitetstanken (history) (1927) Morgonstjärnan (lyric poetry) (1928) Någon går förbi på vägen (short stories) (1928) Den förborgade källan (lyric poetry) (1930) Det ringer kväll (lyric poetry) (1931) Under vintergatan (lyric poetry) (1934) Hjärtat och svärdet (lyric poetry) (1935) Axel Olof Freudenthal. Liv och gärning (bibliography) (1936) Vandringsdagen. Lyrik i urval 1924-1935 (lyric poetry collection) (1936) Atlantisk bränning (lyric poetry) (1937) Lyriker och berättare. Finlandssvenska studier (literature history) (1939) Över havet brann Mars (lyric poetry) (1939) Sånger i världsskymning (lyric poetry) (1941) Det övergivna samvetet (collection of essays) (1943) Sfinxen och pyramiden (lyric poetry) (1944) Det förlorade landet och andra berättelser (short stories) (1945) Solbärgning (lyric poetry collection) (1946) Vårstorm. Lyrik i urval 1899-1919 (lyric poetry collection) (1947) Sista milen. Lyrik i urval 1937-1946 (lyric poetry collection) (1947)