Jarkko Laine
Jarkko Laine was born in Turku, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland on March 17th, 1947 and is the Poet. At the age of 59, Jarkko Laine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jarkko Laine (17 March 1947-2004 – 19 August 2006) was a Finnish poet and a writer of prose and plays.
He also translated American literature to Finnish. Jarkko Laine was born in Turku, Finland.
He came from the 1960s underground movement, drawing inspiration from popular culture, pop music, and comics.
He wrote lyrics for the band Suomen Talvisota 1939-1940, and for singer Rauli Badding Somerjoki's 'Bensa Suonissa', 'Hymyle Miss Universum, and 'Pilvet karkaa, nikin minyakkin' (the latter being Aki Kaurismäki's film Drifting Clouds).
Jarkko Laine served as the editorial assistant for the literary journal Parnasso from 1969-1986 and the editor-in-chief from 1987 to 2002.
In the years 1987-2002, he served as President of the Union of Finnish Writers.