Leevi Lehto

Leevi Lehto (23 February 1951 – 22 June 2019) was a Finnish poet, translator, and programmer. His best known work was the Finnish translation of Ulysses by James Joyce.

He translated the works of Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, George Orwell, Stephen King, Ian McEwan, Josef Skvorecky, Walter Benjamin, John Keats, John Ashbery, Mickey Spillane and Charles Bernstein. 

Lehto died of multiple system atrophy in Helsinki on 22 June 2019, aged 68.

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Category:1951 births
Category:2019 deaths
Category:Finnish poets
Category:European translators