Thomas Warburton

Thomas Henry Warburton (4 March 1918 in Vaasa – 18 December 2016 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish writer, translator, and recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 1997, as well as the State Prize for Translators in 1971, 1977, and 1978, the Tollander Prize in 1976, and the Lybeck Prize in 1971. He was the son of engineer Thomas Harald Warburton and Elli Nordling, and married Kerstin Ingeborg Schulman in 1940. He was a prolific translator into Swedish from both English and Finnish. His translations from English include works by William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Dylan Thomas, William Styron, and Kenzaburō Ōe. He also translated The Exploits of Moominpappa, Moominsummer Madness (1955), Moominland Midwinter (1957), Tales from Moominvalley (1962) from Swedish to English. His start "was a subeditor and general handyman at Schildts publishers in Helsinki" and eventually became an editor and director. He began working for the publisher Holger Schildts förlag in 1943, was on the editorial staff of the journal Nya Argus from 1949 to 1975, and served on the board of the Society of Swedish-speaking Writers in Finland from 1946 to 1960.