Håkan Mörne

Arvid Håkan Mörne (5 December 1900 in Helsinki – 24 December 1961 in Mariehamn) was a Finland Swedish journalist and author.

Biography Håkan Mörne was the son of the poet Arvid Mörne and Signe Antoinette Hagelstam. He married Svanhild Danielsen in 1926. After graduating in 1921, he studied chemistry at the University of Helsinki and the Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany from 1922 to 1924.

Mörne worked for a year in 1926–1927 as a journalist for the newspaper Allas krönika, but he enjoyed the sea best and went to sea as a young man and worked with travel descriptions and foreign reports. In his writing, he preferred to depict everyday life, rather than the famous tourist destinations, in the countries he visited. Some of his texts can be classified as essays while others take the form of social reports.

From 1945, he lived on Åland and devoted himself there to fruit growing.

Awards and honours He was awarded the Lybeck Prize in 1939.