![]() ![]() In 2008, a commemorative €10 coin was issued in honor of the centennial of Waltari's birth, with his signature on one side and an Egyptian Pharaoh's watchdog on the other. The international success of The Egyptian made Waltari the world's preeminent Finnish writer. His three-volume historical novel From Father to Son (1942) won. (While I haven't been able to verify this, it seems that Walford may have translated the Swedish translation to English.) The Egyptian (1945), a worldwide success, brought Waltari into prominence in other countries. In 1945, Waltari published the first of his historical novels, Sinuhe, Egyptiläinen, which was released in English in 1949 as The Egyptian (or, in England, as Sinuhe the Egyptian), translated by Naomi Walford. He married in 1931 and later served as a propagandist against the Axis in World War II. First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year. This is a fascinating recreation of a period - a people - a whole segment of the ancient. He became successful as a writer within Finland in 1928, mainly writing about the cultural and social changes going on at the time. The Egyptian, historical novel by Mika Waltari, published in Finnish in 1945 as Sinuhe, egyptiläinen. He first novel ( jumalaa paossa) was published in 1925, a year before he graduated high school. Mika Waltari (1908-1979) was born in Helsinki, Finland, the son of a secondary school teacher. ![]()
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