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In the 1930s, Finnish poet Bo Carpelan found mention of his great-uncle Axel in a biography of the composer Jean Sibelius. This friendship is the genesis of Carpelan's fictional diary of Axel's dual obsession with music and with a man who, unlike him, had enough confidence in his creativity to compose his own.
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Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan (25 October 1926 - 11 February 2011) was a Finnish poet and author. He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his Ph.D. in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories. He is the only person as of yet to have received the Finlandia Prize twice. His poem, Winter was Hard, was set to music by composer Aulis Sallinen. Carpelan died of cancer on 11 February 2011.
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The dominant theme of this novel is the centrality of art in the emergence of a native culture. Sibelius dedicated his 2nd Symphony to Baron Axel Carpelan, and this book tells of the friendship between the two men. The author is the great-nephew of Baron Axel Carpelan.
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