Rabbe Enckell

Rabbe Arnfinn Enckell (3 March 1903 – 17 June 1974) was a Finland-Swedish writer and poet. Enckell is regarded as one of the stalwarts of the Finland-Swedish poetic revival that began in the 1920s.

Enckell was born in Tammela, Kanta-Häme, to the journalist and agriculturist Karl Enckell and Vesta Charlotta Edgren. He was born into the Finnish cultural , which traces its origins to Germany. Enckell graduated from the secondary school Svenska normallyceum in 1921 and then studied art history at the University of Helsinki. He died in Helsinki, aged 71.

Works Dikter (Poems, poems, 1923) Flöjtblåsarlyckan (Flautist's Luck, poems, 1925) Tillblivelse (Genesis, short stories, 1929) Ljusdunkel (short stories, 1930), Ett porträtt (A Portrait, short stories, 1931) Vårens cistern (The Cistern of Spring, poems, 1931) Landskapet med den dubbla skuggan (The Landscape with Double Shadows, poems, 1933) Tonbrädet (poems, 1935) Herrar till natt och dag (short stories, 1937). Lutad över brunnen (Learning over the Well, poems, 1942) Andedräkt av koppar (Breath of Copper, poems, 1947), Sett och återbördat (1950) Essay om livets framfart (An Essay about the Ravages of Life, a collection of essays, 1961) Det är dags (1965) Flyende spegel (1974)